Assam oil well fire: SC stays NGT order including OIL MD in panel to assess damage
The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed a National Green Tribunal order that included Oil India’s managing director in its 10-member committee constituted to assess damages and fix responsibility for the failures in a fire incident in the company’s Assam’s Baghjan oil well in the Tinsukia district.
The blow-out that took place on May 27 last year from Baghjan 5 oil well had damaged the entire biodiversity of the Dibru Saikhowa National Park and the Maguri-Motapung Wetland. The 172-day fire at the oil well had also left two of Central PSU’s firefighters dead.
A bench, led by Justice D Y Chandrachud, while seeking response from the ministries of environment and petroleum, Oil India and others also stayed the NGT’s February 19 order.
