mine experienced a major structural failure resulting in serious injury to a miner – 2000 Bulk carrier Global Peace oil spill at RG Tanner Coal loading facility in Gladstone in Queensland – 2006 Yallourn Power Station Coal mine wall collapse (mine flooded by the Latrobe River) – 2007 Venus Island gas pipeline explosion – 2008 Santos Limited Port Bonython groundwater contamination (Crude oil leak from storage tanks enter the groundwater) – 2008–2012 Montara Well Head Platform blowout and subsequent oil and gas spill – 2009 Eastern Star Gas (taken over by Santos Ltd) Coal Stream Gas operation incident which resulted in 10,000 litres of toxic water waste entering the environment in the Pilliga State Forest – 2011 Princess Highway closed after heavy resulted in land movement at the Hazelwood mine causing cracks in the road – 2011 Springvale and Angus Place coal mines – Undertook unapproved coal mining and/or discharging mine groundwater into an environmentally sensitive area – 2011 Collapse of the Morwell River Diversion at the Yallourn Coal Mine – 2012 Santos Limited Jackson oil spill – 2013 See also Mining accidents in Australia References External links Department of Natural Resources and Mines, Queensland government, Mining wardens inquiries Australian Maritime Safety Authority Major historical incidents The Australian Emergency Management Knowledge Hub - Industrial Case judgements from the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act - Department of the Environment Lists of disasters in Australia Accidents in the fossil fuel industry Accidents in the fossil fuel industry in Australia