No Oil spill threat, Goa Port Authority guarantees CM

Panaji, May 22: Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar said last week he was worried about the oil spillage as the Western Shipping India Limited (WISL) was facing pressure from civil society organizations to take action against officials. To prevent a potential leakage of oil.

"Mormugao Port Trust Chairman has submitted that there is no oil in WISL dry dock, but about 100 litres of diesel is present in the generator and WISL will remove the same by May 23, 2017. MPT Chairman has assured Chief Minister that all precautions are being taken to ensure that there is no oil spill," the Chief Minister's office said in a statement issued here.

The WISL ship repair facility, where the dry dock has partially sunk, is located on MPT grounds in Mormugao sub district, located 50 km from Panaji.A complaint filed by the MPT alleged that the MPT had already led a bad conduction powder to the submerged area. This incident created a sense of discontent in Morgan's port town and civil society activists demanded that the state government intervene in this regard.