The fishermen, who have been fighting for the last eight months for the compensation against the damage they suffered due to the oil spill after the to the collision of two ships MSC Chitra and MV Khalija off the Mumbai shore in August 2010, felt terribly let down by the state government as they have received no compensation for their loss.

The expert committee, appointed after the oil spill, r

The gram sabha of Cavelossim Village Panchayat on Sunday opposed the land acquisition proposal of the Fisheries Department for the proposed construction of ship building, docking and repairs of boats at Mobor.
Sarpanch Edwin Cardozo said the proposal to acquired 17800 square metres for the proposed ship building project has been unanimously opposed by the villagers.
He said the land acquisition

The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) that had taken up the task of cleaning the Mumbai shoreline following the oil spill caused by the collision of MSC Chitra and MV Khalijia 3 in August last year, said on Monday that it had completed the process of bioremediation along the Navy Nagar Coast, with 90 per cent success.

The New Delhi-based institute was appointed to carry out partial clean-up

The Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) on Monday submitted its interim report on the effects of last August

While directing chairmen of major ports to implement the recommendations of the expert committee report on chlorine gas leak at Mumbai Port Trust on July 14, 2010, the government has told deputy conservator of Mumbai Port to immediately remove hazardous cargo from the warehouse and destroy it under the powers vested in him.

Following the assessment report submitted by the expert panels, Maharashtra fisheries department has decided to claim the compensation of Rs8 crore towards the loss suffered by the fishermen due to the oil spill in the Arabian sea in the first week of August.
The compensation will be sought from the companies that own the ships collided.

Experts from Central Institute of Fisheries Education an

Tiger Spring, the container vessel which ran aground on the eastern bank of the Hooghly river following collision with another container vessel, Green Valley, on Tuesday, was carrying several boxes of hazardous materials.

According to informed sources, the vessel was carrying 60 tonnes of IMO Class 9 and another 4.6 tonnes of IMO Class 6.1 hazardous cargo in four containers.

When contacted,

Tamluk/Gadiara, Nov. 23: Two container vessels today collided, apparently after one of them went adrift because of a snag, in a narrow stretch of the Hooghly where tide travails compound the space problem.

The 33 sailors of the two ships are safe but both vessels were damaged and started spilling oil after the 11.30am hit at Hooghly Point, around 50km from Calcutta.