Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um has clamped a hy­dro­car­bon leak near the Moru­ga Sec­ondary School that trig­gered air qual­i­ty test­ing and emer­gency re­sponse mea­sures late last month.

The com­pa­ny, in a state­ment, said the leak, de­tect­ed on May 23, prompt­ed im­me­di­ate ac­tion by its emer­gency team to con­tain and clean the area. It has since re­stored the site.

Dur­ing the cleanup, school of­fi­cials re­port­ed a strong odour.

In re­sponse, Her­itage met with them and sent emer­gency med­ical re­spon­ders to the school. The com­pa­ny al­so com­mis­sioned in­de­pen­dent air qual­i­ty tests, which con­firmed that air qual­i­ty re­mained with­in ac­cept­able lim­its.

“As an added pre­cau­tion, port-a-cool fans were in­stalled to im­prove air cir­cu­la­tion in des­ig­nat­ed ar­eas of the school,” Her­itage said in its me­dia re­lease.

On June 3, rep­re­sen­ta­tives from the Oc­cu­pa­tion­al Safe­ty and Health Agency (OS­HA) in­spect­ed the site and con­firmed that Her­itage had fol­lowed the nec­es­sary pro­to­cols to ad­dress the leak.

The Min­istry of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries and the En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty were al­so in­formed.

Her­itage said it re­mains in con­tact with key stake­hold­ers as the sit­u­a­tion sta­bilis­es.