TEMA is again urging persons to volunteer to help clean up the oil spill impacting Tobago.

Work has been continuing since last week Wednesday, when an overturned vessel began spilling an oil-like substance into the water near Cove.

TEMA shared a testimonial from one person who explained that “𝑽𝒐𝒍𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒅𝒐𝒆𝒔𝒏’𝒕 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖’𝒅 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒃𝒆 𝒄𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒊𝒍. 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒔𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒍 𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒗𝒐𝒍𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒆𝒓, 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒍𝒖𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒅𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒂𝒔𝒌𝒔 𝒔𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒂𝒔 𝒅𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒐𝒐𝒍𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒊𝒆𝒍𝒅 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒆𝒓𝒔.”

As of yesterday, the spill extended from the west to the northwest into the Caribbean Sea, with noticeable oil weathering beginning around 18km from the source.

TEMA however said there were no indications of oil entering the Western or Northern Coasts of Tobago at that time.

Large amounts of oil have washed ashore in some places and efforts are continuing to contain the spill and clean the impacted areas.