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 …
Institutional bottlenecks, funding challenges, disenchantment by affected communities and political interference, among others, may stall the implementation of the Ogoni Cleanup Project, which was launched by the Federal Government one year ago. Though the Hydrocarbon Pollution Restoration Project (HYPREP), has called for expression of interest to prequalify for implementation of …
CHENNAI: Five years after an oil pipeline leak contaminated the groundwater in Tondiarpet, the southern bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Wednesday ordered immediate disbursement of compensation to residents. The ‘polluter’, Bharat Petroleum Company Limited (BPCL), has already deposited `6 lakh with Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) …
CHENNAI: Six months after the oil spill along the coast in Chennai, the Fisheries department officials on Thursday submitted an interim report to the National Green Tribunal. The report said: "As per the directions of the NGT (SZ) Chennai, the joint director of Fisheries (Regional), Chennai has been suitably instructed …
Amnesty International says it is seeking to enlist digital activists to help track oil spills in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. Amnesty, in a press release on Monday, called the project “Decode Oil Spill Project” which it described as a revolutionary crowd-sourcing platform to help the human rights group …
Oil companies planning to drill near a vast coral reef at the mouth of the Amazon river have calculated that the unique ecosystem has a 30% chance of being affected in the event of an oil spill. 'We are rewriting the textbooks': first dives to Amazon coral reef stun scientists …
Amnesty International has launched 'Decode Oil Spills Project,' a revolutionary crowd-sourcing platform that will engage thousands of digital volunteers to help the human rights watchdog ensure justice for communities devastated by oil spills in the Niger Delta. According to a statement issued Monday by Amnesty International, its supporters from all …
The Ogoni leaders have expressed displeasure over the inability of some stakeholders to contribute their own quota of the $1 billion cleanup deal, a situation, which according to them, was also delaying the exercise. They said that it was not enough to present an Ogoni son at the front as …
Slick had spread to 35 km after two ships collided in Ennore four months ago Four months after two ships collided off Kamarajar Port in Ennore, leaving more than 35 km of Chennai’s coastline affected by oil spill, the shores of Ernavoor, the ‘epicentre’ of the spill, has nearly returned …
A Hindustan Petroleum company official said, “The tanker was carrying 20,000 litres of ATF. However, the quantity of the spill has not been ascertained yet.” Police, however, said that around 4,000-5,000 litres of the fuel spilled onto the road. A tanker carrying aviation turbine fuel (ATF) overturned near the Moolchand …
DESMI, which is working in partnership with its firms in Nigeria, Samdus Oil and Gas and Axflo Oil and Gas, manufactures equipment that is used to cleanse pollution from water. To ensure that the oil producing environment in Nigeria is free of pollution from toxins and free radicals emitted by …
The Court of Appeal in Port Harcourt has ordered Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) to pay N122 billon as damages to Ejama-Ebubu community in Eleme Local Government Area of Rivers State for crude oil spillage. Justice Ali Abubakar Gumel dismissed Shell’s appeal for failure to file a competent brief of …
Port Harcourt — The United Nations has called on people of Ogoni impacted by environmental degradation to be patient while the clean-up recommended by the global body takes off. This came as Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, expressed fears that the clean-up exercise was already being politicised and called for …
There are strong indications that the cleanup of over 2,500 contaminated sites in Nigeria's oil producing areas would cost the federal government and other stakeholders over $50 billion. A breakdown showed that it would cost $6 billion to cleanup Ogoniland alone while other parts of the Niger Delta would gulp …
CHENNAI: While the Tamil Nadu government and the fisherfolk of seafront villages maintain that the fish have not been contaminated by the Ennore oil spill of January, a report by the ministry of earth sciences suggests otherwise. A study of 21 edible fish caught off the Chennai coast found that …
From 61 days the restriction has been limited to 45 days, says Fisheries Secretary Following requests from fishermen of Chennai, Tiruvallur and Kancheepuram, the State government has allowed them to return to sea on May 29 after a 45-day ban However, the ban will be in effect in other parts …
Panaji: Mormugao Port Trust (MPT) chairman I Jeyakumar has assured chief minister Manohar Parrikar that all precautions would be taken to prevent an oil spill following the partial grounding of the 60,000 deadweight tonne floating dry dock at Western India Shipyard Limited. To ensure that the situation does not deteriorate …
The partially sunk dry dock could lead to a oil spill in Vasco Bay VASCO: The Vasco MLA Carlos Almeida have asked Mormugao Port Trust (MPT) authorities to initiate an action plan to refloat the dry dock of Western India Shipyard Limited which partially sank on Wednesday and to avoid …
MV QING, with 350 tonnes of oil, and the grounding of floating WISL dry dock, increase risk of oil spillage; gross negligence by authorities, claim environmentalists Believe it or not, but not only the Vasco Bay but whole of Goa’s coast is apparently sitting on environmental time bomb with waters …
ERA/FoEN in its field report released yesterday was sequel to the return of Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) to oil spillage sites in Edagberi/Betterland Community in Ahoada-West local government area of Rivers State. The report signed by ERA’s Bayelsa State Coordinator, Alagoa Morris noted that Shell returned to site about …
The governing council of the Hydrocarbon Pollution Restoration Programme (HYPREP) has approved a one-year strategic plan for implementation of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report on Ogoniland. Sources told The Guardian that the Board of Trustees of HYPREP would meet today to deliberate on the plan and may ratify …
