Oil spill off Goa, officials say no threat:
[India News] Panaji, Oct 2 : More than 5,000 litres of oil accidentally spilled into the sea from a storage tank in Goa but officials said there was no threat to the marine life.
Police and fire brigade sources said the spillage occurred at the Kharewaddo jetty in Vasco da Gama late Friday when pipelines transferring oil from tanker 'Nirmaljit Singh Sekhon PVC' to the IndianOil Corporation storage facility snapped.
The incident caused panic among the fishermen of Kharewaddo coast, who began to jettison cooking gas cylinders and stoves from their fishing boats into the sea fearing a blast in the area.
Trawlers docked along the jetty were immediately shifted to another location.
Officials from the Vasco and Mormugao ports and local residents pitched in for the cleanup operation to prevent the area from getting polluted.
"We do not know the exact quantity of the leakage, but there is no threat to marine life," Goa Fire Service chief P.K. John told IANS here.
"The film of oil on the water has completely gone. Earlier there was some accumulation (on the water surface)," he said.
But the extent of the damage would be known only in the course of the next few days when dead fish and other marine life are washed ashore.
Police have arrested four senior IndianOil Corporation officers for being negligent.
--Indo-Asian News Service
[India News] Panaji, Oct 2 : More than 5,000 litres of oil accidentally spilled into the sea from a storage tank in Goa but officials said there was no threat to the marine life.
Police and fire brigade sources said the spillage occurred at the Kharewaddo jetty in Vasco da Gama late Friday when pipelines transferring oil from tanker 'Nirmaljit Singh Sekhon PVC' to the IndianOil Corporation storage facility snapped.
The incident caused panic among the fishermen of Kharewaddo coast, who began to jettison cooking gas cylinders and stoves from their fishing boats into the sea fearing a blast in the area.
Trawlers docked along the jetty were immediately shifted to another location.
Officials from the Vasco and Mormugao ports and local residents pitched in for the cleanup operation to prevent the area from getting polluted.
"We do not know the exact quantity of the leakage, but there is no threat to marine life," Goa Fire Service chief P.K. John told IANS here.
"The film of oil on the water has completely gone. Earlier there was some accumulation (on the water surface)," he said.
But the extent of the damage would be known only in the course of the next few days when dead fish and other marine life are washed ashore.
Police have arrested four senior IndianOil Corporation officers for being negligent.
--Indo-Asian News Service
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