Singapore closed off several popular coastal parks as an oil spill continued to spread along its shores, with authorities vowing to intensify cleanup efforts on Sunday (June 16).
The oil spilled into Singaporean waters after a Netherlands-flagged dredger struck a stationary Singapore-flagged bunker vessel on Friday (June 14) afternoon in the southern port of Pasir Panjang.
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The oil spilled into Singaporean waters after a Netherlands-flagged dredger struck a stationary Singapore-flagged bunker vessel on Friday (June 14) afternoon in the southern port of Pasir Panjang.
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00:00Singapore closed off several popular coastal parks as an oil spill continued to spread
00:07along its shores, with authorities vowing to intensify clean-up efforts on Sunday.
00:13The oil spilled into Singaporean waters after a Netherlands-flagged dredger struck a stationary
00:19Singapore-flagged bunker vessel on Friday afternoon in the southern port of Pasir Panjang.
00:26Authorities had said the vessel was no longer leaking oil, but added that due to the tidal
00:30current, the treated oil has landed along shorelines including Sentosa, Labrador Nature
00:36Reserve, Southern Islands, Marina South Pier, and East Coast Park.
00:41Despite the closures, some beachgoers were still visiting East Coast Park on Sunday morning.
00:46Are you worried about the environment at all, because it really smells awful?
00:50Yeah, it smells also, and it's not really good for the health, for, you know, there's
00:55elderly here, kids here, yeah.
00:58We planned to swim today, but since we knew what happened to the sea yesterday, then we
01:06decided not to waste our Sunday, just come and enjoy the wind.
01:10There's no wind, a bit of wind, but it's okay.
01:14The view is awesome actually.
01:16Singapore is a global shipping and fuel bunkering hub.
01:20The environmental impact of the oil spill remains unclear, but local newspaper The Straits
01:26Times reported that fishermen were on alert for a spike in the number of fish deaths over
01:30the next few days.