St Ouen’s Bay, Portelet, Beauport and Grève de Lecq have all been affected by small patches of oil being washed ashore, and the Harbour Office say that nothing can be done to stop it.Public Services are running a clear-up operation to get the oil off the beach, but assistant Harbourmaster Capt Paul Mimmack said if the wind and tides kept pushing the oil in this direction, there was nothing they could do to stop it.
‘It is not dangerous, but it makes a mess when it gets on to you,’ said Capt Mimmack.’Because it is very heavy fuel oil, it hardens into little lumps, and with the tides, winds and currents the small lumps are coming up towards us now.
It is not really a potential shipping hazard, but we would warn people not to get it on them and to look out for it.’
