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No capacity to tackle oil spills
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Govt still depends on manual cleanup
by Staff Correspondent
Having no oil-spill management capacity, the government continues stopgap measures to remove the furnace oil spread over vast areas of the Sundarbans, whose biodiversity is at a serious stake.
The authorities have not sought any foreign assistance to control the spread, after an oil tanker carrying 3.58 lakh litres of furnace oil capsized in the Shela river near Mongla on December 9.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday directed the Khulna divisional commissioner to accelerate the process of the manual clean-up with the help of locals, which she described as very effective.
—There is no alternative to this,?? Abdullah Al Islam Jacob, deputy minister for forest and environment, told The Daily Star.
The remarks come at a time when plants in a vast part of the Sundarbans are already smeared with oil, and the aquatic resources are at grave risks.
Of the 3.58 lakh litres with which the vessel capsized, some 2.25 lakh litres oil spread initially over 50 to 60km stretch of the Shela and Pashur rivers.
—The danger is that the oil has spread over the rivers, canals and creeks across the Sundarbans,?? said noted environment expert A Atiq Rahman.
The oil in the creeks would have adverse impacts. As the breathing roots of the trees are covered by the oil, they will just die, he added.
Also, aquatic resources like dolphins, which have a sanctuary in the Sundarbans, and crabs are among the most vulnerable species and they will be affected the most, said Atiq, executive director of Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies.
According to him, the oil spread could have been controlled even by locally made containment booms and by using hyacinths.
Certain amount of the oil has been washed away in the sea with the tides, but the amount is paltry because the tide in winter is weak.
—The nature will now take its own course [to clean itself],?? he added.
Jacob said the forest department yesterday deployed another 80 boats for the clean-up. On Saturday, the department had deployed 120 boats and 200 workers to collect the oil from the rivers using fishing nets, sponges and other manual means.
Until yesterday, some 50,000 litres of the oil has been collected, said officials at the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA).
Jacob said they deployed three trawlers yesterday to wash the plants and collect the oil from the wate