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Ennore Creek oil spill 2023
December 25 , 2023
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- Massive oil spill from Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited (CPCL) resulted in a sheet of oil spreading into Buckingham Canal and Ennore Creek.
- Ennore Creek, an arm of the Kosathalaiyar River, is demarcated as Coastal Regulation Zone IV.
- Inadequate stormwater management at CPCL, led to overflowing of oil mixed water amid floods triggered by cyclone Michaung.
- Section 356J of the Merchant shipping Act, 1958, describes the power to give a notice to the owner, etc, of polluting ship when the central government is satisfied the ship is not as per the prescribed rules.
- Section 356K of the same Act states that if a person, after being served the notice under section 356J, fails to comply, the central government can convict the person of an offense.
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