A SUN Oil tanker carrying oil to Bahamas Power and Light flipped over in Marsh Harbour, Abaco, on Tuesday, spilling 8,600 gallons of diesel on Tuesday.
By RASHAD ROLLE
Tribune News Editor
rrolle@tribunemedia.net
A SUN Oil tanker carrying oil to Bahamas Power and Light flipped over in Marsh Harbour, Abaco, on Tuesday, spilling 8,600 gallons of diesel, according to Roscoe Thompson, chairman of the Marsh Harbour/Spring City Township.
Mr Thompson said the diesel spilt was in a residential area with no houses.
He said up to yesterday, all the diesel had not been removed, and a “horrendous” stench polluted the area near the government complex. He said mango, sugar cane and other fruit trees were growing in the area and had likely been contaminated. BPL disconnected electricity for about an hour so the Sun Oil truck could be moved without incident.
“I am very concerned,” he told The Tribune. “This is the second incident that has happened under Sun Oil. This is something that local government and the community will put pressure on. If we have to take Sun Oil to court to clean this up, we will. People need to be held accountable.”
Abaco community advocate Silbert Mills broadcast the spill's aftermath live on Facebook. He noted the fire department and the environmental health officials were at the scene.
“You can see gallons and gallons of fuel escaping from the truck,” he said, urging residents to take an alternative route. He said the driver of the truck was taken to the clinic.
Comments
Sickened 5 months, 2 weeks ago
When you read SUN OIL LIMITED while it's upside down like that, it reads 'UNTOUCHABLE'. Amazing!
ThisIsOurs 5 months, 2 weeks ago
You cant make this up. At least this time the Transformer/Autobot tell us who's responsible and nobody have to say dont call Sun Oil name
ExposedU2C 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Word on the street has it the driver of the Sun Oil tanker was a lowly paid immigrant who came to our country illegally and somehow managed to get documents from our immigration department.
Can't help but wonder if the driver had an appropriate driver's license to operate such a hazardous and dangerous vehicle. Also, given that no other vehicles were involved and the driver was not harmed (and weather was not a factor), one can only assume the driver was driving at a high speed because of "time-pressure" by his employer or his employer's customer or because he was under the influence of something like all of that 'legal' pot being smoked these days.
Too many questions once again left unanswered by lousy reporting by The Tribune.
The greedy Snake is not too worried because he knows his good buddy corrupt Davis will arrange for the hazardous mess to be cleaned up at the taxpayers' expense. LOL
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