“Breaking up the large globs into smaller globs might be less offensive to the eye but it’s equally offensive to us. “What we saw was not as outrageous as what they were doing,” said Aboud. It called for the company to use booms to contain the oil and collect it. It is just the latest of many spills that threaten to wreak havoc on the area’s vulnerable marine life and fishing industry.Īboud, who heads a local environmental watchdog, showed the extent of the spill, which he said stretched for miles, and criticised what he said was a half-hearted clean-up attempt by oil company, Paria Fuel Trading Company Limited.įishermen and Friends of the Sea (FFOS) went out to document the spill and filmed a vessel at full throttle apparently attempting to break up the oil layer.
In the footage, filmed onboard a small boat, Gary Aboud documents an oil spill this week in the Gulf of Paria, off the Caribbean coast of Trinidad. Hands masked in thick black oil, the fisher drips toxic globules back into the sea as he pleads with the camera, urging viewers to “share this video”.
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