gas leak in point lisas??

[tarzan]

just got word that there's a gas leak in point lisas....can anyone confirm?

[DFC]

Saw it on Cnews but I don't know which company and I ain't smelling anything.

[Tarantula]

ancil roget strikes again??

[javishm]

sabotage

[INDAVID WORKSHOP]

The smell was reported to be a Pesticide spraying activity at Sevilla compound.

That is what I heard.

[Invisible]

The smell was reported to be a Pesticide spraying activity at Sevilla compound.

That is what I heard.

This ^^^^

[BrotherHood]

Not again...

[Allergic2BunnyEars]

News on radio said gas leak in Pt Lisas. Mentioned that persons were evacuated. Report stated that it was repaired. Roget said it was Petrotrin fault for not maintaining infrastructure and yet another example of management's neglect apart from the oil spill issue.

[EXODUS]

Op light a match n lewwe kno

[joker]

Wat tarzan doing in pt lisas?

[nos_specialist]

Sooo....people saying Management neglect, yes we know the pipelines decades old, and yes we know better maintenance can be done...

but, noone find it suspicious, this oil spill, rumour of gas leak, and who knows what else....occurring all at around the same time?

[Team Loco]

Before reading this and knowing about it i passed through balmain and the entire place was smelling like gas

[Allergic2BunnyEars]

Sabotage is a nice angle but until it can be proven, like how inspection reports with dates can be shown, it's just hearsay and PR.

Dated reports can't be disputed. When you have lines that haven't been inspected for the better part of two decades you don't really have a leg to stand on especially when low level employees recommend that inspection, maintenance and replacement be carried out because it is overdue.

[Country_Bookie]

Sooo....people saying Management neglect, yes we know the pipelines decades old, and yes we know better maintenance can be done...

but, noone find it suspicious, this oil spill, rumour of gas leak, and who knows what else....occurring all at around the same time?

Don't forget the protests by Fishermen and Friends of the Sea against the Seismic Bombings by BPTT and Petrotrin.

[Allergic2BunnyEars]

Also don't think of 11 leaks. Think of one major leak and strong ocean currents with a much smaller number of other leaks. If you think of it this way sabotage actually makes less sense.

[K74T]

Pt Lisas companies stop work over ‘pungent odour’

By Susan Mohammed

Story Created: Jan 8, 2014 at 8:49 PM ECT

Story Updated: Jan 8, 2014 at 8:49 PM ECT

A PUNGENT odour experienced in Point Lisas caused an evacuation of tutors and students of the National Energy Skills Centre (NESC) yesterday.
The scent also led to the shutdown of neighbouring business places and companies.
According to a release from the Point Lisas Industrial Port Development Corporation Ltd (Plipdeco), the odour was experienced in the vicinity of the Point Lisas Industrial Estate, Balmain, and along Rivulet Road.
The release stated: “A few companies were adversely affected and in some instances staff were sent home or company ope­rations stopped for the remainder of the day.
“Subsequent investigations revealed that there were no gas or chemical leaks associated with companies on the industrial estate on the point in time. It appears that the source of the problem may have been chemical spraying being conducted at a site in the vicinity of Sevilla.”
Manager of corporate communications of the National Gas Company (NGC) Charmaine Mohammed said a team from the company detected the leak at the Sevilla Sports Club where chemical spraying was being done.
Mohammed said employees of NGC who complained of feeling unwell as a result of the odour left the compound for the day.
Around 9 a.m. approximately 500 students and 100 staff members were evacuated from the NESC compound following a directive from the health and safety personnel to the institution’s administration department.
Minister of Tertiary Education Fazal Karim told the Express: “I don’t know what it was. The fumes were spread across the Point Lisas area and we sent our students away as a result of that.”
NESC chairman Feroze Khan said yesterday evening he was uncertain whether there was clearance for classes to resume today.
The Plipdeco release stated a report was made to the Environmental Management Autho­rity.

http://www.trinidadexpress.com/news/Pt-Lisas-companies-stop-work-over-pungent-odour-239346741.html

[Team Loco]

Balmain. 7pm. Road blocked by fire services

[VexXx Dogg]

by the church?

[Allergic2BunnyEars]

http://m.guardian.co.tt/news/2014-01-09 ... g-exercise

Chairman of the National Building Code Committee Shyankaran Lalla has dismissed reports from both the National Gas Company and Plipdeco chairman Ian Atherly that the pungent smell which enveloped parts of Couva yesterday and forced an evacuation of workers and students was not a gas leak.





“My information is that there was a disruption of a natural gas line near the golf course,” Lalla said in a telephone interview yesterday evening, two days after he had raised concerns about the infrastructural integrity of the lines on the estate, maintenance, inspection and adherence to the OSH regulations. Lalla called on the NGC, Atherly and Couva South MP Rudy Indarsingh to tell the truth.





“It seems they have learnt nothing from the Petrotrin oil spill which is costing that company millions of dollars. When they cover up small incidents, then you will have the big ones,” Lalla cautioned. Atherly initially confirmed yesterday morning that in a conversation with Indarsingh he was told the scent had emanated from a warehouse at NGC. He said Indarsingh responded to calls from schools, business people and residents about the strong gas scent which invaded his constituency from early yesterday morning.





Around mid-morning, Atherly said he was informed by Indarsingh that the scent emanated from the spraying of malatian at the Sevilla Club. “I have been liaising with Mr Indarsingh and first it was a gas leak in a warehouse and the second update is that it was caused by the spraying of malatian. I am awaiting a report from my HSE people, headed by Gerrel Traboulay,” Atherly said,.





In a third telephone conversation around noon, Atherly confirmed that his HSE staff, together with the NGC HSE team toured the area from Balmain to Mc Bean, where they checked every gas junction in and outside of the estate and nothing was found. “What they said they uncovered was in fact a spraying exercise was being conducted at the Sevilla Club.





I was told chemicals malatian and phosphorous were used for this exercise and this is where the scent emanated from,” Atherly said. He said the Sevilla Club is operated by the Sports Company of T&T. NGC, in a release from corporate communication manager Charmaine Mohammed, also confirmed that the scent was not due to a gas leak but from a spraying exercise. Lalla rejected these explanations, pointing out that malatian was commonly used by Caroni (1975) Limited to spray crops in the past.





“So the people of Couva know the difference between gas and malatian and what was emanating yesterday was gas.” He added: “My information came from people working on the plant. A senior operator said the leak was up by the golf course and said ‘they were keeping everything low.’ “If there was no gas leak why then did the Sevilla Club evacuate, why did the Atlantic Plaza evacuate. I would advise Atherly, Indarsingh and NGC to do some further investigations to safeguard the lives of the people in that community,” Lalla said.

[silent_riot]

I'm sorry I farted.

[<=xjemler=>]

Actually it WAS a gas leak it's just being covered up idk why tho

[Team Loco]

BS!!!

i passed there 30 minutes ago and its even worse now. there is a house cordened off with yellow tape and two massive lpg cylinders in the yard. the smell is so strong that even with your ac on recirculated air, it gets in and is stiffling. its definitely a gas smell!. its strongest in the road between the hardware and rivulet rd by milton. has to be an underground gas line. chemical spraying at sevilla my ass. sevilla is downwind from the source of the smell

[DFC]

somebody light a match pls!!!!

[pete]

If it's a gas leak then they really shouldn't have anyone near to the area. Hopefully the line is repaired before something happens.

[sc@rf@ce]

I was on that call. Gas leak. Stay away from that area