The blowout of an Oil India Limited (OIL) gas well in Assam’s Tinsukia district last week is causing extensive damage to biodiversity and wildlife the region — including the endangered hoolock gibbons and Gangetic dolphins — according to several residents, activists and experts.
Baghjan, where the gas well blowout occurred on May 27 is close to the Dibru Saikhowa National Park, the Maguri-Motapung wetlands, and the forest villages of Barekuri which are habitat to the hoolock gibbon.
Uncontrollable gas flow is continuing from the gas well, according a press statement issued by Oil India Limited on Monday.
