Time to bin Oban after huge spill at refinery

Mon, Oct 21st 2019, 12:24 PM

THE massive oil spill in Grand Bahama caused by Hurricane Dorian should be incentive enough for the government to reject the controversial Oban refinery proposal, an environmental watchdog has asserted. Save The Bays (STB), in a pamphlet on the incident, said the 100,000 barrels of oil that spilled from the Equinor South Riding Point facility should ideally lead to a “definitive rejection of the notorious” Oban Energies proposition. STB’s Legal Director Fred Smith, QC, said the Minnis administration would be “insane” to continue “courting another dangerous and reckless facility” because if agreed to, a “disaster on the scale of South Riding Point or even greater is not a question of if, only a question of when.”

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