【禁聞】相同漏油事件 中美處理大不同

【新唐人2011年7月26日訊】6月發生的「渤海灣漏油事件」，到目前溢油問題仍然沒有停止。長達1公里的油帶漂浮在渤海灣上，造成幾千平方公里的海洋污染災害。有媒體比較渤海灣事件和去年美國「墨西哥灣漏油事件」，可以看出兩國政府面對重大污染事件的處理態度完全不同。

這個月24號《中評社》北京報導，環保人士汪永晨指出，自6月4號「渤海灣漏油事件」發生一個多月了，國內媒體雖然零星報導，不過並未在國內引起廣泛重視；對照去年（2010年） 4月在美國發生的「墨西哥灣漏油事件」，兩國政府在面對同樣的環境污染災害時，明顯不同的處理態度。

報導指出，美國「墨西哥灣漏油事件」受到新聞媒體大力報導，成為美國重大環保事件。發生第2天，美國政府、媒體、環保組織透過網路隨時向民眾報告最新消息。即使遠在太平洋對面的中國民眾，也可以透過媒體看到許多令人震驚的污染畫面。5天後，美國官員趕到墨西哥灣；第8天，美國總統歐巴馬也趕往現場關心處理狀況。但歐巴馬和其他官員卻受到民間批評。因為美國民眾認為，官員的反應速度太慢了！

反觀中國的「渤海灣漏油事件」，6月上旬發生後，直到7月5號，才由國家海洋局對外通報，證實了這次污染事件。在此之前將近一個月內，人們只能通過新浪微博，以及記者傳出的內部消息了解現況。直到7月11號，官方纔首度證實至少有840平方公里的水域受到污染。對此，「國家海洋局」海洋環境保護司司長李曉明的說法是：因為溢油的原因很複雜，污染面積、發生原因等，需要一定的時間才能得出結論。

報導還指出，「墨西哥灣漏油事件」發生8個月後，美國媒體又進行了新一輪追蹤報導，關注墨西哥灣污染事件的後續賠償問題與環境復原進度。對此，汪永晨感慨，「渤海灣漏油事件」發生以來，國內媒體幾乎都是淡化處理，也許因為中國還有太多事情需要報導了。不過汪永晨也猜測，不知道是不是還有別的原因？

近年來中國沿海海域的污染問題越來越嚴重。《中國之聲》25號報導，不只這次的「渤海灣漏油事件」，以山東省為例，《2010年煙臺市海洋環境公報》指出，去年煙臺近海發生3起「赤潮」，最大面積6平方公里，黃海中北部海域持續一個多月發生大面積滸苔綠潮，光是打撈清理的滸苔就超過9800噸。去年煙臺市監測的19個由陸地排污口排放入海的污水總量達到3億2千萬噸，這些都讓中國沿海污染越來越嚴重，甚至造成民眾因食用深海魚發生重金屬汞中毒等問題。

新唐人記者　曾耀賢 郭敬 綜合報導

Different Treatments of Oil Spills

The Bohai Bay oil spill incident occurred in June 2011.

However, the oil spill has not been stopped.

It currently stretches up to 1 kilometer and

is polluting thousands of square kilometers of ocean water.

Some media compared this to

the U.S. Gulf of Mexico oil spill incident in 2010.

The comparison shows that the U.S. and Chinese governments

have different attitudes towards handling oil spill incidents.

China Review News Agency reported from Beijing on July 24,

environmentalist Wang Yongchen pointed out that

sporadic reports of the Bohai Bay oil spill incident

hadn』t attracted much attention in China.

Also, the report compared the incident

to the U.S. oil spill incident in Gulf of Mexico in April 2010.

Both governments have significantly different attitudes

towards the handling of oil spills issues.

The report pointed out that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill

was vigorously reported by the media and

became a major environmental incident in the U.S.

After the oil spill, the U.S. government, media and environmental

groups reported the issue』s development on a real time basis.

Even the Chinese people, across the Pacific,

could see pictures of the polluted ocean.

Five days after the incident took place,

U.S. officials rushed to the Gulf of Mexico.

On the 8th day, Obama came to the scene, as well.

However, they were still criticized for responding too slowly.

As the reported said 8 months after "the Gulf of Mexico oil spill",

US Medias still do follow-up attention to the compensation and

environmental restoration progress of the oil spill incidents.

However in China,

Wang Yongchen said that after "Bohai Bay oil spill" occurred,

the Chinese national media downplayed the incidents,

perhaps there are too many things the regime needs to report.

Wang also speculated that if there are other reasons?

The Bohai Bay oil spill occurred in early June, but

it was not confirmed by State Oceanic Admin until July 5.

Prior to this, people could only obtain news about the incident

on Sina』s micro-blogs and from some reporters.

On July 11, officials confirmed for the first time that

at least 840 square kilometers of water was contaminated.

Li Xiaoming, director of Marine Environmental Protection Division,

explained that the causes of the oil spill were very complicated

and it would take some time to reach a conclusion.

In recent years, China's coastal water pollution is getting worse.

Voice of China reported on July 25 that in Shandong,

three “red tides" appeared near Yantai』s coast in 2011.

The largest one covered 6 square kilometers of the sea.

In June 2011, more than 9,800 tons of green algae were

collected in the Yellow sea

The quantity of contaminated water poured from Yantai City』s

19 discharging outlets into the ocean was 320 million tons.

All of these contribute to China』s worsening coastal pollution.

They even resulted in people suffering from mercury poisoning

due to their consumption of deep-sea fish.

NTD reporters Zeng Yaoxian and Guo Jing