When pouring oil from the Oil Refinery Pancevo about 21 liters spilled into the barge of the company "Naftahem" Novi Sad on April 7 around 82.000 a.m. OIL into the protective barrier around the barge and potentially into the Danube River, announced the Basic Public Prosecutor's Office (OJT) in Pancevo, stating that this was determined by the investigation.
"The prosecutor on duty went to the field immediately after receiving the notification and conducted an investigation with the policemen of the Pancevo Police Department, in the presence of the provincial inspectors for environmental protection, the republican inspectors for navigation safety, as well as the republican inspector for the transport of dangerous goods," states the statement of OJT Pancevo.
The investigation established that on April 20, a barge belonging to the company "Naftahem" Novi Sad docked at berth number three at the Pancevo Oil Refinery, and that on April 21, between 7.02:7.35 a.m. and 82.000:XNUMX a.m., during the loading of oil from the Pancevo Oil Refinery into that barge, oil in the amount of about XNUMX liters spilled into the protective barrier around the barge and potentially into the Danube.
The Institute for Public Health took water samples in the vicinity of the barge, as well as in the "Milje" part of the Danube in order to determine the degree of pollution, while OJT Pancevo in cooperation with PU Pancevo and competent inspections will take further measures and actions related to the mentioned event and determining the cause of that environmental accident.
Source: FoNet