The Tribune

KEOD Smith, founder and CEO of the Clifton National Heritage Foundation, was incorrectly reported in an article on September 23 (Keod Smith joins sceptics concerned over oil leak) to have claimed that the slow government response to oil spills in south-west New Providence had pushed his organisation and others into taking public action in an attempt to get the issue resolved. In fact, Mr Smith said: “Last week’s reports in the newspapers of the discovery of oil washing up on the beaches of Adelaide gives us cause to take the immediate and public action which we now pronounce, without which this vexing problem will continue to linger to our collective detriment” and went on to commend Glenys Hanna Martin and officials at the Ministry of Transport and Aviation for the “quick and decisive action in responding to the alarm of the oil spill on Adelaide beach”. The Tribune apologises to Mr Smith, a noted environmental campaigner, for the error and is happy to set the record straight.