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 Coastal invasion [1]

Oil waste litters Gujarat seafront

in early August, Magodh Dhungri, a fishing village on the southern Gujarat coast was invaded by a smell very different from that of drying fish. When the fishermen came out to investigate, they saw lumps of tar-like substance floating on the sea surface; the coast was littered with them.

Publication Date: 
14/09/2009
Ravleen Kaur [2]
Down to Earth [3]
Tags:
Environment [4], Oil Pollution [5], Industrial Pollution [6], State Pollution Control Board (SPCB) [7], Gujarat [8]
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