A member of the Pollution Response Team collects a sample of an oil spill from boulders at the coast, a day after an oil tanker and an LPG tanker collided off Kamarajar Port in Ennore, in Chennai on Monday. According to a latest report from the ICG, 40 tonnes of oil sludge and 27 tonnes of oil and water mixture have been collected. Meanwhile, two submersible pumps used by the ICG to remove the oil sludge broke down in the interim. Varying estimatesThe port authorities initially claimed that there was no oil spill. However, by Monday morning, a thick layer of floating oil blackened the shoreline of the Marina beach, more than 20km from Ennore port.

Source: Mint February 02, 2017 04:26 UTC