The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has ordered bauxite mining company Bosai Minerals to clean up waste oil that was “inadvertently” released into the surrounding waterways including the Demerara River earlier this week and said the company will be fined.
Region Ten chairman Renis Morian told Stabroek News late yesterday afternoon that the clean-up had not yet begun. “Bosai need to get their act together,” he said while relating that the regional administration will be keeping a keen eye on the clean-up efforts and actions by the EPA as similar incidents had occurred in the past and nothing much was done.
“When we saw the spill (on the Demerara River), it was about six miles long,” he said. However, he noted that the oil slick would move up and down with the tides. However, oil remains in the drainage systems in Linden, according to Morian. He could not say
