The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has asked the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) to quantify the environmental damage caused by the sinking of the Panama-owned vessel MV Rak, which sank off the coast of Mumbai last year.
Not only did the sinking of MV Rak result in a massive oil spill but 60,000 metric tonnes of coal was dumped into the ocean following the sinking.The NGT has also issued notices to Mumbai Maritime Board, the Maharashtra state government and the ship’s owner Delta Shipping Maritime Services with the latter being asked to pay for the damages caused to the marine ecology due to the oil spill.
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/ngt-quantify-oil-spill-damage
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/asian-age-new-delhi
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/mumbai
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/oil
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/ministry-environment-and-forests-moef
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/mangroves
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/environmentalists
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/arabian-sea
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/diesel
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/compensation
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/ecology
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/environment
[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/petrochemical-industry
[14] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/industrial-waste
[15] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/oil-pollution
[16] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/hazardous-waste
[17] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/maharashtra
