Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
A judge has frozen the Argentine assets worth us $60 million of Anglo-Dutch oil giant Royal Dutch/Shell Group and a German firm after an oil spill in the River Plate, a local official said. Juan Sibetti, mayor of Magdalena, 110 km southeast of Buenos Aires, told news agencies the assets …
A 195-metre cargo ship carrying nearly 1.5 million litres of oil was set on fire by explosive experts in Coos Bay, Oregon, usa. The action was taken in anticipation of a fierce storm which threatened to break the freighter and worsen the oil spill. The state and federal authorities decided …
AN OIL slick in the English Channel is threatening marine life along a 225 km, stretch of the southeastern coast of England. "This is the first major incident of its kind that we have had since the Torrey Canyon Disaster in 1967," claimed Dennis Fenter, warden of Brent Lodge Bird …
Traces of an oil slick from a damaged tanker have reached Pakistan's southern shore, threatening marine life and beaches, maritime and environment officials said. They estimate that nearly 5,000 tonnes of oil leaked from the Belize-registered ship Yashika , that was abandoned after it was damaged by unknown causes about …
poultry just discovered a new feather in its cap: that it can help make this polluted world a little cleaner. It came as a pleasant surprise when us-based scientists recently announced that chicken feather can help clean up those ugly oil slicks quickly, efficiently and - most important of all …
two reports about the fate of sea birds affected by oil slicks reveal a very sorry picture about their survival after they are released from captivity. In the uk , for example, only one per cent of guillemots (a sea bird) survived the first year of release. In the Netherlands, …
the United Arab Emirates is facing drinking water crisis due to oil spills in the world busiest shipping lane. Authorities are now drafting a new law to tackle environmental pollution. Oil pollution has become a major concern in the oil-rich Gulf state where in the last two years, desalination plants …
baleshwar, 24, will never walk again. While scrapping a ship at one of the 183 shipbreaking yards at Alang in district Bhavnagar, Gujarat, he fell from a height of 10 metres, suffering multiple fractures in his legs. His one-year tenure at the shipbreaking yard has also left Baleshwar with respiratory …
The geography of Alang makes it ideal for shipbreaking. The beach is low and tides are as high as 10 metres. During low tide, the sea recedes by three km. The industry was set up in Alang in 1982, egged by the demand for a safe haven for shipbreaking. By …
The living conditions in labourers' settlements are indeed sub-human, admits a government official, asking not to be named. High pollution levels, lack of clean drinking water and cramped living conditions in Alang have badly affec-ted the health of labourers. There is no provision for potable water. "We have to buy …
a large oil slick is threatening marine life and birds along the United Arab Emirates (uae) coastline. The slick was caused by a stricken barge that spilled about 4,000 tonnes of crude oil into the sea. Authorities have temporarily shut down a water desalination plant in Ajman. They have also …
A California state jury has directed the owner of a tanker that spilled 76.4 million litres of oil in 1990 near two popular beaches in the US state to pay US $18 million for damages caused by the closing of the beaches. In what lawyers called an unprecedented verdict, the …
On March 24, 1989, the tanker Exxon Valdez was grounded on Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska, spilling 11 million gallons (50 million litres) of oil into the sea. The litigation that ensued is a classic case of evaluation of ecological damage. The jury awarded US $5 billion in …
an oil slick has polluted a two kilometre stretch of seashore south of the city of Chennai. According to police officials this information has been passed on to the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board ( tnpcb ). Officials say that this happened when oil tankers had cleaned out the holds …
Southeast Asia seems to have a permanent rendezvous with disasters. First it was the haze in Indonesia and now it is the oil spill in Singapore. About 25,000 tonnes of fuel oil spilled into the Singapore Strait on October 15 when the Cyprus-registered tanker Evoikos collided with the Thai-registered Orapin …
A LARGE crude carrier and an oil tanker collided, causing an oil spill of about 3,000 to 4,000 tonnes in the Singapore Strait on October 15. Port authorities said that no one was injured in the accident. They also said that the vessel was in no danger of sinking. The …
For almost four decades, unabated flaring of associated gas and oil spills have destroyed a large portion of Nigeria's mangroves in the Niger Delta of the country's southeastern coast. Associated gas comes in conjunction with crude oil but is separated and burnt off or "flared", if gas gathering and reinjection …
the Black Sea ecosystem is threatened by a project to build a pipeline to transport oil to the sea shores from Kazakhstan through southern Russia. Some of the largest oil companies of the world are involved in the Caspian Pipeline Consortium ( cpc ), a us $2-billion project that is …
Fish meal sprinkled on a beach polluted by an oil slick helps the bacteria in the sand clean it up. Stephane Lefloch, chemist at the Centre for Documentation, Research and Experimentation on Accidental Water Pollution, Brest, France, says the fish meal rekindles microbes and provides the sustenance and the time …
