Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka)

Environmen­talist Centre for Environmen­tal Justice -Hemantha Vithanage

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It was a question as to how oil droplets resurfaced. Two days after the leak we were informed that all oil traces of oil had been cleared. However two weeks later when the droplets resurfaced officials claimed that oil droplets deposited on the river banks were washed into the river following a heavy downpour. Doesn’t this suggest that they were not thorough in their cleaning? If Coca Cola was responsibl­e shouldn’t they be fined twice? Also to my knowledge none of the authoritie­s have done an assessment on the damage caused to the biodiversi­ty despite many requests by environmen­talists.

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