Assam MP wants panel report on Baghjan blowout well implemented
The Hindu
The affected natural gas well was killed 173 days after the blowout affecting farmlands and water bodies around, the report said
Assam Lok Sabha member Dilip Saikia has asked the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Petroleum and Natural Gas to immediately implement the recommendations in a report submitted by a panel headed by the State’s Chief Wildlife Warden M.K. Yadava. The erstwhile Sarbananda Sonowal government had constituted the committee headed by Mr. Yadava to assess the environmental impact of the blowout at Well No. 5 in the Baghjan Oilfield operated by Oil India Limited (OIL). The natural gas well had caught fire less than a fortnight after the blowout on May 27, 2020. Foreign experts were engaged to kill the well 173 days later. But by that time, three OIL employees and some birds and aquatic animals in the adjoining Maguri-Motapung wetland had died.
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