Detriments of Sustainable Development: Marine Oil Pollution with Special Reference To Ennore – An Analysis for Viksit Bharat

Globally, the human activity is causing immense damage to environment. The last fifty years have seen a more severe degradation of nature than at any other time in human history. Human activities such as transportation, offshore oil exploration, port development etc., will contribute more to the disorder of marine environment. Oil spill happened during transportations through human error, equipment failure, collisions, grounding and weather conditions in the oceans is one such environmental damage, which result in the destruction of habitats, marine lives, water pollution and economic losses, also it puts human health at risk. One such accident occurred in Ennore, Chennai, Tamil Nadu during 2017 at the cost of the environment, which was one of the major blows to the sustainability. This chapter attempts to explain the Ennore oil spill in detail and also to analyse the legal frameworks available internationally and nationally to prevent marine oil pollution through doctrinal research with an objective of giving a plausible solution to thwart oil spillage from ships and to include necessary amendments in the laws.