Sascha Wil­son

Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um has launched an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to an oil leak near Rang­ie Nanan Dri­ve, Tarou­ba, af­ter res­i­dents com­plained of hy­dro­car­bon fumes, while a moth­er and her 12-year-old daugh­ter sought med­ical at­ten­tion af­ter falling ill.

The com­pa­ny yes­ter­day as­sured that clean-up works were be­ing car­ried out as a pri­or­i­ty to re­move any con­t­a­m­i­nat­ed soil from the area, while air qual­i­ty test­ing and mon­i­tor­ing were on­go­ing as a pre­cau­tion­ary mea­sure to en­sure safe lev­els were be­ing main­tained.