Oil leak reaches Singapore shores

[saratogas]

NPark management will be happy, hopefully the smell can drive off those long term campers along our public beaches.

 

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Emergency workers attempt to clear the crude oil slick which washed up on the shore next to a ferry terminal on the eastern coastline of Singapore on May 26, 2010. Patches of crude oil that leaked from a tanker damaged in a collision off Singapore were spotted along the city's east coast, as emergency crews worked to stop the slick spreading.​

 

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An emergency worker shows the cloth used to absorb the crude oil slick which washed up on the shore next to a ferry terminal on the eastern coastline of Singapore on May 26, 2010.​

 

[Papsmearer]

papsmearer, you making anti-pap fellas look bad. don't just anyhow google and whack. dunno say dunno.you let your hatred come in the way of logic most times.

ok, PAP asskisser, u got me.

 

[Watchman]

What you waiting for ? Mobilise the NS boys and school children .

And cancel YOG .

 

[Watchman]

http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_532020.html

 

[Papsmearer]

What you waiting for ? Mobilise the NS boys and school children .

And cancel YOG .

Cannot lah, it makes too much sense. Anywhere else in the wold, they will mobilise the population or many will volunteer for the beach cleanup. But jackasses in this forum think MPA doing a good job.

 

[Cestbon]

I can smell the oil in the air in Ang Mo Kio. All news from Shity Times and Mediacock are bullshit. WWhy action so slow there are so many boat and boom in Singapore especially in Jurong Island borrow/loan from many oil company. Many will be very happy to join in the clean up for free just to get some good image.

 

[Watchman]

Companies plying into our waters must put a security deposit of 10 million .

 

[Papsmearer]

Companies plying into our waters must put a security deposit of 10 million .

The govt. has not even mentioned any repercussions on the companies that own these 2 vessels. At the very least, the captains should be arrested, the ships impounded, and held as collateral until the companies or their insurers pay for the clean up and a hefty fine. The PAP should show some backbone and tell us what they intend to do for people who do this to our territory.

 

[Papsmearer]

I can smell the oil in the air in Ang Mo Kio. All news from Shity Times and Mediacock are bullshit. WWhy action so slow there are so many boat and boom in Singapore especially in Jurong Island borrow/loan from many oil company. Many will be very happy to join in the clean up for free just to get some good image.

U should try living in the East Coast, and see what the smell is like. Its unbelievable some assholes think the MPA is doing a good job.

 

[obama.bin.laden]

So LKY the old bastard can share some of my ass luck from my huge gulf Lao Sai leak.

As Pee Sai you will also get some Pee Sai leak.

 

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Visitors to East Coast Park look at oil washed ashore on the beach just east of the playground at Big Splash Water Park in Singapore Thursday, May 27, 2010.
Emergency workers clearing a crude oil slick washed up to the beach next to the east coast park in Singapore on May 27, 2010.​

 

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Oil and debris are seen on the beach at East Coast Park just east of the playground at Big Splash Water Park in Singapore May 27, 2010. Singapore closed most of its eastern beaches due to the oil spilt in nearby waters following a collision between a tanker and a bulk carrier earlier this week, the environmental agency said on Thursday. The oil slick affected a stretch of more than 7 kilometres (4.4 miles) of eastern Singapore, which include beaches, rock bunds and popular recreational and sailing areas, the National Environmental Agency (NEA) said.​

 

[Watchman]

Keyword : Oil Leak

Even the canals at East Coast are polluted by oil now

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Posted on 28 May 2010

STOMPer VongolaPrimo hopes that the authorities will clean up the pollution at East Coast as soon as possible. The STOMPer spotted oil slicks in the canals around East Coast Park.

The oil slicks in the canal may be the result of the oil spill after the May 25 collision between an oil tanker and a bulk carrier in the waters off Singapore's east coast. By late afternoon on the same day, the oil had spread from the SAF Yacht Club next to the Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal, all the way to the chalets in East Coast Park.

In the STOMPer's report:

"We were walking around at East Coast Park, and my friends saw oil in the canal!

"This is rubbish! How could they do this to the nature!

"They should clear the oil away as soon as possible!"

 

[Watchman]

 

[numero uno]

Look at my nick and you can see why I am speaking with so much "involvement" as you say. I am from the East Coast/Katong/Marine Parade area all my life. If this fucking oil landed on Sentosa, I wouldn't give a dogshit, but it landed on the East Coast beaches. I am pissed of because no one in the Govt. bothered to let people in the area know the beach is going to be contaminated, and to keep away. No one from MOH/NEA/MPA or any other cock agency despatch clean up crews to meet the slick when it reach landfall. Nor were there any booms deployed outside the East coast beaches. The 2 fucked up Captains have not even been arrested and detained. There has been no marine insurance agencies that insured these 2 fucked up ships that have stepped up and say they will pay for the cleanup and damages and inconvenience. I am pissed off because the lousy MPA deployed a measely 3.3km of booms and expect it to be solved? I am pissed off the govt. media is playing this down until people can smell the oil from their flats, before they actually start some coverage. Last of all, I am pissed of with idiots like you who say the MPA is doing a good job when thousands of people in the East coast will tell you that is bs.

good luck to you. breathing in those toxic chemicals 24/7 for a few weeks. Oil is semi-volatile, which means that it can evaporate into the air and create a heavy vapor that stays near the ground -- in the human breathing zone. When winds whip up oily sea water, the spray contains tiny droplets -- basically a fume -- of oil, which are small enough to be inhaled deep into the lungs. We know that's happening in the Gulf Coast, because people are reporting a heavy oily smell in the air. Already my colleagues in Louisiana are reporting that people in the coastal community of Venice, Louisiana are suffering from nausea, vomiting, headaches, and difficulty breathing.
its just the least of your problems. ground water , reservoir and sand would be pollutted for 10-15 years, it took exxon valdez 20 years for the environment to get back to near normal.
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/209378-Is-It-Raining-Oil-In-Florida-This-Is-Just-The-Beginning

 

[Papsmearer]

good luck to you. breathing in those toxic chemicals 24/7 for a few weeks. Oil is semi-volatile, which means that it can evaporate into the air and create a heavy vapor that stays near the ground -- in the human breathing zone. When winds whip up oily sea water, the spray contains tiny droplets -- basically a fume -- of oil, which are small enough to be inhaled deep into the lungs. We know that's happening in the Gulf Coast, because people are reporting a heavy oily smell in the air. Already my colleagues in Louisiana are reporting that people in the coastal community of Venice, Louisiana are suffering from nausea, vomiting, headaches, and difficulty breathing.
its just the least of your problems. ground water , reservoir and sand would be pollutted for 10-15 years, it took exxon valdez 20 years for the environment to get back to near normal.
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/209378-Is-It-Raining-Oil-In-Florida-This-Is-Just-The-Beginning

Yes, I am sure you are right. But that is my point. Why has MOH not mentioned these health symptoms and problems that u have. There has been a deafening silence from the govt. about the extend of the spill, measures to clean it up, where it is landing, and what the health hazards are.

 

[moolightaffairs]

Look at my nick and you can see why I am speaking with so much "involvement" as you say. I am from the East Coast/Katong/Marine Parade area all my life. If this fucking oil landed on Sentosa, I wouldn't give a dogshit, but it landed on the East Coast beaches. I am pissed of because no one in the Govt. bothered to let people in the area know the beach is going to be contaminated, and to keep away. No one from MOH/NEA/MPA or any other cock agency despatch clean up crews to meet the slick when it reach landfall. Nor were there any booms deployed outside the East coast beaches. The 2 fucked up Captains have not even been arrested and detained. There has been no marine insurance agencies that insured these 2 fucked up ships that have stepped up and say they will pay for the cleanup and damages and inconvenience. I am pissed off because the lousy MPA deployed a measely 3.3km of booms and expect it to be solved? I am pissed off the govt. media is playing this down until people can smell the oil from their flats, before they actually start some coverage. Last of all, I am pissed of with idiots like you who say the MPA is doing a good job when thousands of people in the East coast will tell you that is bs.

papsmearer, i actually understand how you feel. i think im nearer to the oil compare to you. i am staying at bayshore park high floor. but you are a bystander and i support the operation, not the management. previously you will suggesting about burning it, it will create more foul smell and even worse. lot of thick black smoke!!! now having south easterly wind!!! bayshore & marine parade will be hit hard by the smoke if they do it like what you suggest!!! :(

any vessel which carry oil as a cargo in bulk got to have a cert CLC 92 to show that they are insured for oil pollution. its a requirement world wide. so you talking about why no insurer come out to show face and promise to bear the cost. they dont, because they dont have to. they are not those AIA, Prudential etc. those are small companies that cant handle this type of marine insurance. look at the sum insured below and imagine how many tankers in the world. they are not call "marine insurance agencies" like what you said, its the P&I clubs. the captains not under arrest by sinkapoor because this incident did not happened in local waters. you mentioned 3.3km of boom not enough, then how much is enough? 100km? (i copy this from vivian)

i understand u r not happy with the oil hitting the beach, me too. if u r not happy about it, just said u r not happy about it. please stop commenting on maritime issue. i believe beside me, there are other samsters here familiar with all this stuff. you can call me idiot, but the way you commented on this issue making you like an idiot.

lastly, im quite lucky that im not involve in this incident in anyway. just want to share some knowledge with fellow samsters. but not into details, as its really a lot of things if u r not specialize in it.

International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage (CLC), 1969

Adoption: 29 November 1969
Entry into force: 19 June 1975

Note: The 1969 Convention is being replaced by its 1992 Protocol as amended in 2000

Introduction
The Protocol of 1976
The Protocol of 1984
The Protocol of 1992
The 2000 Amendments
Special Drawing Rights Conversion Rates
Introduction
The Civil Liability Convention was adopted to ensure that adequate compensation is available to persons who suffer oil pollution damage resulting from maritime casualties involving oil-carrying ships.

The Convention places the liability for such damage on the owner of the ship from which the polluting oil escaped or was discharged.

Subject to a number of specific exceptions, this liability is strict; it is the duty of the owner to prove in each case that any of the exceptions should in fact operate. However, except where the owner has been guilty of actual fault, they may limit liability in respect of any one incident to 133 Special Drawing Rights (SDR) for each ton of the ship's gross tonnage, with a maximum liability of 14 million SDR (around US$18 million) for each incident. (1 SDR is approximately US$1.28 - exchange rates fluctuate daily).

The Convention requires ships covered by it to maintain insurance or other financial security in sums equivalent to the owner's total liability for one incident.

The Convention applies to all seagoing vessels actually carrying oil in bulk as cargo, but only ships carrying more than 2,000 tons of oil are required to maintain insurance in respect of oil pollution damage.

This does not apply to warships or other vessels owned or operated by a State and used for the time being for Government non-commercial service. The Convention, however, applies in respect of the liability and jurisdiction provisions, to ships owned by a State and used for commercial purposes. The only exception as regards such ships is that they are not required to carry insurance. Instead they must carry a certificate issued by the appropriate authority of the State of their registry stating that the ship's liability under the Convention is covered.

The Convention covers pollution damage resulting from spills of persistent oils suffered in the territory (including the territorial sea) of a State Party to the Convention. It is applicable to ships which actually carry oil in bulk as cargo, i.e. generally laden tankers. Spills from tankers in ballast or bunker spills from ships other than other than tankers are not covered, nor is it possible to recover costs when preventive measures are so successful that no actual spill occurs. The shipowner cannot limit liability if the incident occurred as a result of the owner's personal fault.

The Protocol of 1976

Adoption: 9 November 1976
Entry into force: 8 April 1981

The 1969 Civil Liability Convention used the "Poincaré franc", based on the "official" value of gold, as the applicable unit of account. However, experience showed that the conversion of this gold-franc into national currencies was becoming increasingly difficult. The 1976 Protocol therefore provided for provides for a new unit of account, based on the Special Drawing Rights (SDR) as used by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The exchange rate for currencies versus the SDR fluctuates daily. However, in order to cater for those countries which are not members of the IMF and whose laws do not permit the use of the SDR, the Protocol provides for an alternate monetary unit - based, as before, on gold.

The Protocol of 1984
Adoption: 25 May 1984
Entry into force: 12 months after being accepted by 10 States, including six with tanker fleets of at least 1 million gross tons.

Status: Superseded by 1992 Protocol

While the compensation system established by the 1969 CLC and 1971 Fund Convention had proved very useful, by the mid-1980s it was generally agreed that the limits of liability were too low to provide adequate compensation in the event of a major pollution incident.

The 1984 Protocol set increased limits of liability, but it gradually became clear that the Protocol would never secure the acceptance required for entry into force and it was superseded by the 1992 version.

A major factor in the 1984 Protocol not entering into force was the reluctance of the United States, a major oil importer, to accept the Protocol. The United States preferred a system of unlimited liability, introduced in its Oil Pollution Act of 1990. As a result, the 1992 Protocol was drawn up in such a way that the ratification of the United States was not needed in order to secure entry into force conditions.

The Protocol of 1992
Adoption: 27 November 1992
Entry into force: 30 May 1996

The Protocol changed the entry into force requirements by reducing from six to four the number of large tanker-owning countries that are needed. The compensation limits are those originally agreed in 1984:

- For a ship not exceeding 5,000 gross tonnage, liability is limited to 3 million SDR (about US$3.8 million)

- For a ship 5,000 to 140,000 gross tonnage: liability is limited to 3 million SDR plus 420 SDR (about US$538) for each additional unit of tonnage

- For a ship over 140,000 gross tonnage: liability is limited to 59.7 million SDR (about US$76.5 million)

The 1992 protocol also widened the scope of the Convention to cover pollution damage caused in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) or equivalent area of a State Party. The Protocol covers pollution damage as before but environmental damage compensation is limited to costs incurred for reasonable measures to reinstate the contaminated environment. It also allows expenses incurred for preventive measures to be recovered even when no spill of oil occurs, provided there was grave and imminent threat of pollution damage.

The Protocol also extended the Convention to cover spills from sea-going vessels constructed or adapted to carry oil in bulk as cargo so that it applies apply to both laden and unladen tankers, including spills of bunker oil from such ships.

Under the 1992 Protocol, a shipowner cannot limit liability if it is proved that the pollution damage resulted from the shipowner's personal act or omission, committed with the intent to cause such damage, or recklessly and with knowledge that such damage would probably result.

From 16 May 1998, Parties to the 1992 Protocol ceased to be Parties to the 1969 CLC due to a mechanism for compulsory denunciation of the "old" regime established in the 1992 Protocol. However, for the time being, the two regimes are co-existing, since there are a number of States which are Party to the 1969 CLC and have not yet ratified the 1992 regime - which is intended to eventually replace the 1969 CLC.

The 1992 Protocol allows for States Party to the 1992 Protocol to issue certificates to ships registered in States which are not Party to the 1992 Protocol, so that a shipowner can obtain certificates to both the 1969 and 1992 CLC, even when the ship is registered in a country which has not yet ratified the 1992 Protocol. This is important because a ship which has only a 1969 CLC may find it difficult to trade to a country which has ratified the 1992 Protocol, since it establishes higher limits of liability.

The 2000 Amendments
Adoption: 18 October 2000
Entry into force: 1 November 2003 (under tacit acceptance)

The amendments raised the compensation limits by 50 percent compared to the limits set in the 1992 Protocol, as follows:

- For a ship not exceeding 5,000 gross tonnage, liability is limited to 4.51 million SDR (US$5.78 million)

(Under the 1992 Protocol, the limit was 3 million SDR (US$3.8 million)

- For a ship 5,000 to 140,000 gross tonnage: liability is limited to 4.51 million SDR (US$5.78 million) plus 631 SDR (US$807) for each additional gross tonne over 5,000

(Under the 1992 Protocol, the limit was 3 million SDR (US$3.8 million) plus 420 SDR (US$537.6) for each additional gross tonne)

- For a ship over 140,000 gross tonnage: liability is limited to 89.77 million SDR (US$115 million)

(Under the 1992 Protocol, the limit was 59.7 million SDR (US$76.5 million)

Special Drawing Rights Conversion Rates

The daily conversion rates for Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) can be found on the International Monetary Fund website at http://www.imf.org/

 

[Watchman]

Damaged tanker removed
by Low Mei Mei (no byline)
05:55 AM May 29, 2010
The damaged tanker, which leaked 2,500 tonnes of crude oil into the sea after a collision with another vessel on Tuesday, has been moved safely from the accident site to a Johor anchorage in the east.

The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) said the MT Bunga Kelana 3 was certified safe to be moved by the classification society, American Bureau of Shipping.

During the move, which took place on Friday afternoon, precautionary measures taken included having four tugs equipped with dispersants and containment booms - and another two tugs - escorting the vessel.

The MPA said investigations into the accident are ongoing but early findings indicate that weather conditions were clear and traffic was light along the commercial strip at the time of collision.

The accident happened 13km off Changi.