Couple worried about mile-wide oil patch off north coast

Read storyA couple fishing on the northern coast ran into a patch of oil about one square mile are worried that authorities don't seem to care.

After running into the patch of oil, Alex Callendar and her husband reported to the Department of Environmental Health.

“The man who they said was responsible for that area said he did not know anything about it and he didn’t seem too bothered,” said Mrs Callender.

Minister of the Environment, Earl Deveaux, and a member of the country’s national Oil Spill Contingency Response Committee, said Port Authority controller Captain Anthony Allen has primary responsibility for organising a response to such incidents.

On Friday, Allen had still not responded to messages left from him on Tuesday.

Full Story in The Tribune here (Page A1)