Tonnes of sand scooped up after oil spill

Toxic spill: A worker operating a vacuum system during the cleanup at Tanjong Beach in Sentosa. — Reuters

OVER 71,000kg of oil-soaked sand has been scooped up at the three Sentosa beaches since June 15, a day after 400 tonnes of fuel were leaked into the sea from a damaged bunker vessel at Pasir Panjang Terminal.

In a Facebook post on June 20, Sustainability and the Environment Minister Grace Fu said she had visited Sentosa to observe the ongoing cleanup process, which “involves a lot of hard work”.