While we live many miles removed from the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the effects of the spill have begun to take their toll.
It is also important to understand that no Indian agency, including the Navy, Ports or Coast Guard are comprehensively equipped to deal with a major oil spill. Also, the surveillance on ships spilling oil into the sea is so poor, on our coast, that ships get way with murder.
In many parts of the world oil spills are serious crimes and can lead to the Captain & Chief Engineer of a defaulting ship being thrown into jail and slapped with massive fines.
In India, many of our ports are already inundated with oil, from errant ships. But then, who cares?
Please follow the link, to see, how damaging and cruel, the actions of man can be!
http://green.in.msn.com/gallery.aspx?cp-documentid=3914678
I explore the last frontier..............humans!
3 comments:
Well as if its telepathy i just posted a question and you brought out the fallacies committed by Indian Navy and companies etc .. i want to know the solutions as in what they can do for damage control
Ah! The solution, is the tough part!
As in most problems, get to the root cause. Mostly it is human error, leading to equipment failure. So the safety culture on all ships, rigs and oil terminals have to be closely examined.
Ports, or centres around the coast, need to have dedicated, oil spill disaster teams, which are fully equipped & trained, to deal with oil spills at short notice.
There is to be satellite surviellance on our coastal waters to deal with erring ships & to respond quickly to spills.
That could be a start!
This is one Indian Trait, negligence, and that followed by pretence is the most serious behavioural trait that is affecting us. Indians will never care until it is near death situation. This is our key cultural or living style!
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