Oil spill off Shetlands
- Title
- Oil spill off Shetlands
- Genre
- Interview
- TX Date
- 7 Jan 1993
- Year of production
- 1993
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- Duration
- 00:02:21
- Description
- Interview with Transport Secretary John MacGregor on the MV Braer oil tanker spill off the Shetland Islands. Talks of the cleanup procedure; the possibility the disaster could have been avoided and problems of disasters in international waters; inquiry; and compensation. Female interviewer not identified.
- Contributors
- John MacGregor
- Keywords
- Shipwrecks; Scotland; Compensation; Marine safety; Seaborne disasters; Oil pollution; Marine pollution; Law of the sea; Shetland Islands; International law; MV Braer
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LBC/IRN, "Oil spill off Shetlands". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/lbc/search/index.php/segment/0000200017003 (Accessed 21 Apr 2025)