CARELESSNESS on the part of a worker has
resulted in a major oil spill in the
Hooghly river at Haldia about 80 km
from Calcutta. Marine pollution control
vessels belonging to the Calcutta Port
Trust (CPT) tried their best to control
the spill.
It occured when an Indian Oil
Corporation tanker was transferring high speed diesel oil to another ferry, Prem Teesta, which
was scheduled to take it to CPT's dock
at Calcutta. A contract worker,
CPT sources suspect, left the valve of
the tanker open and fell asleep
which resulted in the leakage of
about one lakh kilolitres of diesel into
the river.
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