Qatar held responsible for India oil spill
New Delhi: The National Green Tribunal has directed a Qatar-based shipping enterprise to be made a party in the case of oil spill caused after a cargo vessel sank off coast of Mumbai in 2011.
Panama-flagged MV Rak, which sank 20 nautical miles off the South Mumbai coast in the Arabian Sea on August 4, 2011, was owned by Delta Navigation whose parent company is Delta Group International. Delta Shipping Marine Services SA, earlier believed to be the owner of the ship, had only insured it. (it was Qatar-owned)
The NGT bench headed by its chairman Justice Swatanter Kumar passed the order on a petition filed by Samir Mehta, a Mumbai-based environmentalist, who has sought compensation for damages caused to the marine ecology due to the oil spill.
http://zeenews.india.com/news/maharashtra/oil-spill-off-mumbai-coast-qat...
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Qatar has not been held responsible. The judge has ordered that Delta Navigation must be a "neccessary party" to the proceedings - as is the insurer Delta Shipping Marine Services SA.
Notices were also issued to Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), Maharashtra government and Mumbai Maritime Board on the plea alleging that environmental damages were caused due to the dumping of 60,000 metric tonnes of coal from the ship into the sea.
Adani Enterprises, to whom the coal was to be delivered for a thermal plant in Gujarat, is also a party in the case.
Yes..the owner of the vessel has to bear the cost & risk of clearing the oil spillage.I suppose.
if so then why was BP being milked by the rich americans for all the money they could get from the oil company
Ridiculous. Qatar is only being attacked because it is wealthy.