CNOOC oil spill accident escalates 21 environmental organizations calling for claims

On June 4th, after the oil spills on the B and C platforms of the Penglai 19-3 oil field developed in cooperation with CNOOC and ConocoPhillips, as of now, the oil spill accident has not been completely controlled, and multiple oil spills have been added. point.

After the oil spill accident occurred, the State Oceanic Administration, which was repeatedly accused of inaction, began to initiate litigation claims against CNOOC and ConocoPhillips.

In addition, on August 17, 21 environmental protection organizations appealed to the Ministry of Agriculture to initiate a national claim for the loss of fishery resources caused by oil spill from CNOOC.

The State wants to initiate the Bohai Oil Spill Claim Action Action On August 16th, when the time limit for achieving "two radicals" was only half a month away from ConocoPhillips, the Marine Environmental Protection Department of the State Oceanic Administration again interviewed the main person in charge of ConocoPhillips. Understand the progress of ConocoPhillips' implementation of the Notice of the State Oceanic Administration on the Complete Limitation of Time Limits for Completely Sealing Spillage Sources of Oil Spillage Risk Points, and urge ConocoPhillips to strictly comply with laws and regulations and the deadlines of the State Oceanic Administration. Before August 31, 2011, the oil spill near the platform B was blocked and the oil spill from the C platform was cleaned up.

As of now, the source of the oil spill that caused the Penglai 19-3 oilfield has not been completely sealed off. The reason for the emergence of new oil spill points on the platform B and the constant discovery of new oil-based mud near the C platform and whether it will continue to emerge in the future In a similar situation, ConocoPhillips cannot give a definitive conclusion.

In fact, after the CNOOC oil spill occurred, the State Oceanic Administration, which was accused of not doing something, began to take action.

Also on August 16th, the Beihai Branch of the State Oceanic Administration began publicly selecting legal service agencies for the Bohai Oil Spill Compensation Claims, and started preparations for evidence collection and evidence collection before the legal proceedings. According to the provisions of relevant laws and regulations, on behalf of the country, the party responsible for the oil spill is required to file a claim for compensation for marine ecological damages.

It is only an intention now and it will take some time to file a lawsuit. After all, the current leakage of oil has not been blocked, the area of ​​pollution is still expanding, and evidence collection needs a process. To see whether ConocoPhillips can block the oil spill before August 31, the test report cannot be completed.

“In the past there was no relevant case. How much did you lose? How much did you lose?” said DAI Renhui, Deputy Minister of Litigation at the Research and Service Center for Environmental Resources Law at the China University of Political Science and Law. This needs to be judged based on factors such as the size of the affected area and the value of the sea area. It is only convincing to find a qualified professional organization or expert team to conduct an authoritative assessment.

21 environmental organizations appealed to the Ministry of Agriculture to initiate a national claim. After the CNOOC oil spill occurred, the oil spills in the shallow seas and mudflats of Laoting County and Changli County in Hebei Province were the most serious. The scallops and other aquaculture products had a large number of deaths, and the scallops died. The oil spillage occurred in the Penglai 19-3 oilfield. Farmers may suffer economic losses in excess of one billion yuan.

The claims action to be taken by the State Oceanic Administration will be used to recover the marine ecology. The economic losses caused by this oil spill accident to relevant companies and residents require the Department of Fisheries and other departments of the Ministry of Agriculture to file corresponding claims, because it is even more difficult for fishermen to seek personal losses.

On August 17, 2011, 21 environmental organizations, including Friends of Nature, Darwin Nature Society, and the Public Environmental Research Center, jointly published an open letter to the Ministry of Agriculture.

This open letter calls for the Ministry of Agriculture to investigate in depth the real causes of biological deaths of coastal fishermen in Hebei Province, scientifically determine the causal relationship between oil spill pollution and avian mortality, comprehensively assess the amount of fishery pollution losses, and issue investigation and appraisal reports and loss assessment reports. Contamination victims claim in accordance with the law; promptly start claims for loss of fishery resources caused by spilled oil in Penglai 19-3 oilfield; actively communicate with the State Oceanic Administration and other departments to obtain monitoring and appraisal information on oil spill pollution in Penglai 19-3 oilfield and seriously assess The fisheries ecology, fishery resources and agricultural product safety have been damaged by oil spills and effectively eliminated the serious consequences of the ecological disaster in the Bohai Sea.

In addition, the fishery administrative departments of Hebei Province and Liaoning Province were instructed to learn from the mature experiences in Guangdong and Shandong, and immediately started the national claims for loss of fishery resources caused by oil spillage in the Penglai 19-3 oilfield, thus realizing the historical claims of litigation claims of fishery resources in the two provinces. breakthrough.

On the afternoon of August 17, the contaminated farmers in Changli sent a letter to the Ministry of Agriculture requesting the Ministry of Agriculture to perform its statutory duties to investigate fishery pollution. If the Ministry of Agriculture does not act, the farmers intend to report the administrative department of the Ministry of Agriculture as inaction.

Xia Jun said that at present, the Ministry of Agriculture only arranges quarantine and disease prevention departments to go to Leting for investigation, and the fishery and environmental protection departments are shielded from the procedures. They did not identify the incident as a fishery pollution accident.

According to reason, experts in fisheries ecology, fishery environmental protection, and disease research should be consulted together to see if oil spills are related to the pollution of Leting and other places. If the final characterization is a non-fishery pollution accident or no conclusion is made, scallops will die. The real cause of death was evaded. I am afraid that the loss of fishermen and fishery resources will not be answered.

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