HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT THIS?

I have been following this over the past few weeks.
The West Cork Oil Spill happened sometime around Valentine's Day. It was noticed and identified by satellite on Feb 14. I heard about it a few days later. I haven't been managing to blog as much as I want; things have been pretty crazy. But I knew immediately that I had to post something about this, mostly because of its conspicuous absence from the news around here.
For some reason when I try to post links it's not letting me, so here's the URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Cork_oil_spill
The reporting on it seems to be mostly by the BBC and the Irish Times. I found out about it through Wikipedia! It certainly has never appeared on the Latest Headlines feed on my Firefox bookmarks bar, and has been completely absent from any Canadian news reports. There is coverage of everything that's going on, but it seems to all be in the UK, and no one else is hearing about what's going on.
Not even The Evironmental News Network (http://www.enn.com/ ) has any information. It's all on the Wikipedia page, the Irish Times, the BBC, and other UK sources. There's alot of coverage from The Irish Times especially, if you search for info on Google News.
Searching ENN for it yielded nothing on this oil spill, but lots on oil spills going on throughout North America. Last semester, I took Canadian Environmental Issues, and my professor told us that in Canada there are approximately 12 reported spills of 4000 litres or more each day. I asked where she got that figure, and it was from Environment Canada
(http://www.ec.gc.ca/envirozine/english/issues/50/feature2_e.cfm). In fact it was Environment Canada's 'Envirozine', which I've found to often be a relatively poor way to keep up to date on the true state of the Canadian environment because of how the Harper government tries to cover its own ass. However, it's a good place for facts like oil spills per day in Canada.
The lack of news exposure of this is really unbelievable, and concerning. I'm pretty sure that this oil spill off of Ireland is the largest in Ireland's history. You may or may not remember the Terra Nova Oil Spill, in November of 2004. This was an accidental spill caused by "mechanical failure." 170 000 liters of oil spilled from an extraction platform off Nova Scotia, covering 60 km². It was the largest spill ever on the east coast of Canada.
The response was absurd: nothing was done. Biologists didn't arrive on site until 6 days later!
According to Ian. L. Jones, (Memorial University of Newfoundland) the conclusions that can be drawn from the Terra Nova spill:

Canadian government's short term response : inadequate
Release of information: inadequate
Monitoring of chronic oil pollution from offshore oil and gas activity in general: inadequate.
Seabirds and other migratory birds: have no clearly defined legal protection.

What were the consequences for Petro-Canada?
$120,000 to federally administered Environmental Damages Fund.
$100,000 for environmental science merit scholarships at Memorial University and its Sir Wilfred Grenfell College campus.
$70,000 fine

Petro Canada's third quarter 2005 profits: $614 million

According to Ian. L. Jones:

Fine for the Terra Nova spill: ridiculously low.
Offshore oil and gas developers: unaccountable for damage they cause.
Canada's environmental policies related to preventing damage from offshore oil and gas extraction: product of negligence and incompetence.

This shit is unacceptable.