Experts and officials from a joint meeting in Dhaka yesterday suggested not using any chemical for the oil spill clean-up in the two rivers of the Sundarbans.
Some TV channels earlier quoted BIWTA Chairman Shamsuzzoha as saying the salvage ship Kandari-10 would spray an adhesive to increase the density of the oil which will then be swept away by fishing nets.
Masud Hossain, captain of the vessel, said yesterday that they had come from the Chittagong Port to the Shela river with 10,000 litres of liquid chemical called Propylene Glycol Ether.
“We have environmental clearance for using this chemical,” he told on the deck of Kandari-10, claiming to have used it earlier after an oil container sank in the Karnaphuli last year.
In the morning, a team of experts and high officials visited the ship to enquire about the chemical.
