cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/189214

WA’s environmental watchdog is looking for a potential culprit behind an engine oil spill which is impacting and killing birds in Perth’s southern waterways.

“If it’s actually a commercial enterprise that we’re able to identify as being responsible for this, there are some significant penalties for an incident of this nature … up to $500,000 as a maximum penalty for causing pollution.”

A number of birds were found covered in oil at Richmond Lake in Rockingham. ( ) "[When] they’re waterlogged and can’t fly, if they try to roost here at Lake Richmond the foxes will get them.

“At this point in time we’re looking for, I guess, a landlocked source,” he said. DWER’s Pollution Watch has not received any related reports of potential oil spills or source areas for the surrounding areas.

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