Louisiana oil spill fears after Hurricane Ida By Reuters

(Reuters) – A surveillance plane was dispatched to an area of ​​Louisiana hard hit by Hurricane Ida after a leak of was discovered at a refinery, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday. environment (APE).

The plane, which departed from Texas, will collect data on the Phillips 66 (NYSE 🙂 refinery and other priority sites, an EPA spokesperson told Reuters.

Flooding has occurred in the Alliance refinery, previously reported Phillips 66, who said iridescence of unknown origin in some flooded areas of the refinery had been discovered.

“For now, the slick appears to be secure and contained within the refinery compound. Clean-up crews are on site. The incident was reported to the appropriate regulatory agencies upon discovery,” the company said.

A full assessment of the damage caused by the passage of Hurricane Ida is underway and the refinery remains closed, Phillips 66 added.

The Associated Press also reported on a possible oil spill near an offshore platform in the Gulf of Mexico after examining aerial footage of the disaster area.

The photographs appear to show a brown-black slick several miles long in the waters south of Port Fourchon, Louisiana.

Ida, one of the strongest hurricanes to ever hit the US Gulf of Mexico coast, hit Louisiana on Sunday and turned into a tropical storm before making its way up to the northeastern United States, where it caused torrential rains.

(Report Kanishka Singh in Bangalore; French version Kate Entringer, edited by Blandine Hénault)

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