Next year Bahamas Power and Light (BPL) will begin extracting oil that seeped into the ground over a number of decades at its Clifton Pier power plant, the company’s board Chairman Dr. Donovan Moxey told reporters on Friday. He added that Shell North America will also be involved in the clean-up effort.

Moxey explained that BPL’s board of directors has already approved $5 million for the environmental remediation of the brownfield site at Clifton Pier, where the company’s efforts to contain oil seeping out into the ocean through the installation of a containment wall has been working.

However, Moxey explained that there is also a freshwater lens in the area that could be affected.

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