Officials said the environmental damage from the slow response over an oil spill and the continued loading operations of a bauxite mining company near the Solomon Islands was still unknown on Friday, according to NBC News. A $30 million bulk carrier went aground last month and the government in the Solomon Islands reached out to Australia to request urgent help with the looming environmental disaster. The MV Solomon Trader was loading bauxite from a mine on Rennell Island before cyclone Oma's gusty winds pushed it aground on a coral reef on February 5th. Seventy-five tonnes of fuel oil have so far leaked into the ocean, but the ship was also carrying a full load of bauxite, the dominant ore...
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