The National Green Tribunal has rejected the Oil India Limited’s objections (OIL) to the preliminary report of an expert committee on the blowout and explosion of a gas well owned by the energy giant in Assam’s Baghjan.
The Centre-owned enterprise had asked the Tribunal to not consider the committee’s findings, saying it was based on secondary and unverifiable data.
The expert committee, headed by former Gauhati High Court Judge Justice B P Katakey, was set up by the NGT on June 24.
In an order on Thursday, an NGT bench headed by Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel said, “We have given due consideration to the objections. We are unable to accept the same at this stage for prima facie view and interim compensation.”
