Mangroves stretching over several kilometres along the coast in the eastern suburb of Mahul have been destroyed due to an oil leak from a pipeline carrying furnace oil from the sea to a refinery in the area. The sprawling black sheet of oil has settled on the mudflats too, affecting the seedlings of mangroves.

Forest officials told The Hindu that the damage was serious and had happened over a period of time. “We did not know the source of the oil leak then, but we issued a preliminary report on October 17 pointing out that oil was continuously leaking in the area,” Sanjay Mali, divisional forest officer told The Hindu after inspecting the location on Thursday.

The fishermen from Mahul gaon, a quiet fishing village near Chembur, are a distressed lot.

The project landed in Pachpadra following problems with land acquisition in Leelala village, about 60 km away from there HPCL Hours before United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Chairperson Sonia Gandh

To cut down the outflow of dollar and increase the rupee trade for purchase of more crude oil from Iran, the Finance Ministry has asked the Petroleum Ministry to take immediate steps to make the En

The Cabinet today approved setting up of a refinery in Barmer, Rajasthan. It will be have 9 milion tonnes annual capacity.

The death toll in August 23 fire at the Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd's (HPCL) refinery here rose to 23 with four more workers succumbing to their injuries on Sunday.

Visakhapatnam: The death toll in the massive fire at state-run Hindustan Petroleum (HPCL) refinery-cum-petrochemical complex here has risen to 14 with three more workers succumbing to burn injuries

Pachpadra Residents Want Work To Start

The demand to set up the proposed refinery at Leelala in Baytoo area of Barmer district is gaining momentum. After staging dharna in Barmer and Baytoo, the Refinery Bachao Samiti has started preparations for a dharna on Monday near the Mangala oil fields.

Miffed at being blamed for shifting of the proposed oil refinery from its original site in western Rajasthan, State Revenue Minister Hemaram Chaudhary has resigned from the Cabinet. Mr.