Africa Sun Oil receives Directive after vegetable oil spillThe Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) has issued the directors of Africa Sun Oil Refineries in Durban with a Directive in terms of section 30(6) of the National Environment Management Act. © Blazej Lyjak – 123RF.com The Directive was issued due to a vegetable oil spill after the company's factory burned down and states, inter alia, that the responsible person is required to take the following measures: a) Provide the DEA with a section 30(3) alert report with specific reference to:
b) Take full responsibility for the containment, mitigation and management of the current emergency incident, and put maximum effort in ensuring that the sandbanks, in particular the central sandbank, the mangroves, the natural heritage site are protected. c) Ensure that the placement of booms is applied in a staggered approach in order to control the seepage of oil under the booms that are currently in place. This includes the placement an extra boom in the bay in order to protect and ensure that the current leaked oil does not reach the above-mentioned areas. d) Escalation of the skimming process and ensuring that adequate tankers are on site to assist in the timeous collection and transportation of skimmed oil off-site. e) Undertaking of the following immediate monitoring measures in order to mitigate and manage the incident:
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