Tons of oil are leaked after suspected sabotage act at the Transformer Station in Norway

Around 60,000 tons of oil were leaked in a transformer station near Oslo on Sunday after the premises had been reported.

The Norwegian police said on Monday that they examined the slump in the disused electricity transformer station in the Norway community of Bærum.

Part of the fence around the premises was cut and the cover at the bottom of the transformer was unspecified and left open. The National Power Grid operator Statnett believes that the incident was a law of deliberate sabotage.

“It seems that someone broke and remove a cover of the transformer and left open, which led to a considerable amount of oil,” said Thomas Fennefoss, project manager at Statnett.

However, the police authorities said in a statement that they currently had no concrete evidence of confirming this.

The oil, harmful to the environment, but not for humans, reached the Sandvikselva river near the train station. Part of the oil also seeped underground.

Richard Kongstien, communication manager for the municipality of Bærum, said that efforts were made to minimize the effects of the environment. Oil barriers and absorptions were used to contain and clean the spill.