As is typical for a cabinet minister, Chee Hong Tat omitted details when MPs inquired about the saga and provided questionable definitions for the payment systems, leaving Singaporeans to infer what has transpired.

bullshit lah! where got every time engine die so easily? mpa also cock up to let the oil hit the shore! not the first time with such oil in sea case but letting the oil hit the shore means mpa failed and heads must roll. Sleeping on the job never take action to contains the oil immediately.

Bunker fuels are hazardous cargo,highly flammable. The vessel was at the Parsi Panjang terminal. Wrong parking lot. Fortunately, no explosion and fire.

Boy boy sound like reading off a prepared script?

This oil slick is such a timely showcase for Singapore at the Intetnational Water Week now on ..😢

Previously, there was a serious oil spill in the Indian Ocean on the tourist island of Mauritius, a highly-protected atoll region with beautiful turquoise waters and precious coral reefs all around, just like the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland, Australia. When the crude oil spilled into the waters, pollution was so bad there were large swathes of black oil slick patches everywhere, destroying the ecosystem, and turning the waters dark grey and murky. About 1,000 tonnes of fuel oil from the Japanese-owned MV Wakashio leaked into the ocean in July 2020, causing Mauritius' worst ecological disaster. The captain and first officer of that ship that ran aground on a coral reef in Mauritius had each been sentenced to 20 months in prison.The magistrate said she hoped that the sentence would "serve as a lesson" for the men, and other potential offenders as an act of deterrence in the future.

Minister Chee said that "it will take time...". Indeed our recent government leaders and agencies are always taking time. And taking too much time at that.😂 No sense of deadline, no sense of urgency.

This Chee useless, zo bo si one

it should also be seen as opening Pandora’s box of questions about financial prudence, technological foresight, lack of consultation, and policy transparency by the People’s Action Party government.

Transport Minister failed again, please step down

Standard method 1. Install booms around the oil slick. 2. Get tankers to pump the slick fuel oil out of the water. Improvements expected. 3. Accident reporting speed to response. 4. Civil defence boats speedily deploy booms around the leaking tanker, and booms around the slick. 5. Requisition of empty tanker and pump it out. Conclusion. 6. Slow response of accident reporting from tanker captain, port controller, civil defence reaction. 😢

When Workers’ Party MP for Aljunied GRC, Gerald Giam, inquired about the potential cost savings of SimplyGo and whether they could be passed on to commuters, Chee responded with rhetoric, claiming any savings would benefit taxpayers, not commuters, and provided no specific figures.

Was the old Ezlink system more expensive to operate than SimplyGo?

This raises the question: Was the move to remove the EZ-Link cards necessary in the first place, given how swiftly LTA could reverse its decision?

The S$40 million is presented as an additional expenditure, with no comparison to the costs of introducing and implementing SimplyGo, which replaced a system that served Singapore for two decades.

While some may view the reversal on the EZ-Link card phase-out as evidence of the government’s willingness to listen to public opinion

Chee’s evasive responses would suggest that there are no cost savings, and LTA may be spending more on introducing SimplyGo than on maintaining the existing CBT system.

Will he ever say is congestion? 😅😂

When ports becomes greedy

*The question is it safe now to go to Sentosa and beach area along East Coast due to the oil smell*

The WP has repeatedly called for using more from our national reserves to find social programmes. This is unsustainable, as our reserves are finite.”

The crux of the criminal probe on whether the allusion was due to just the moving Netherlands dredger losing all controls only, crashing into the stationary Singapore bunkering vessel, causing the 400 tons of crude oil leak into the ocean or more likely there's 'more than meets the eye' as in the captain and first officer of both ships are at fault, with the stationary SG bunkering vessel berthed at the wrong terminal or not clearing the way off for the Netherlands dredger to traverse its course fully taking safe distances between shipping lanes into account. Also, questionable practices by the Singapore Police Coast Guard for not intervening beforehand to maintain the safe chartering distances between shipping vessels whether stationary or not should be brought up in the criminal court proceedings.

By the time MPA complete investig , will Iswaran case be over or not? Sg has evolved since LKY era in the name of the Majulah 👀🫣

Netherlands must pay for environmental disaster!

Aunty JILL, which party of the english word "Volatility" do you not understooding? From 4th minute 18th second onwards. 4:18

How horribly wrong Singapore Transport Minister's statement. How do you define sea congestion versus land congestion, huge ships versus large lorries. At sea terms, a huge ship needs kilometers of unobstructive path just to stop, There is probably 1,000 ships at any given time in Singapore small harbors. This is a lot in terms of congestion. If a huge ship suddenly lost power, it is definitely bound to hit something!

Satellite pictures along coastal regions

If not for world class foreign inventions , we may be suffering much more using our hands to scoop it up 😅

What took Chee so long to give this updates?

Did this one magically lose all controls like the American one that hit the bridge, did too? Refined is better than unrefined? Lies!!

Crew from India?

If CheeHong Tat is a politician with integrity, he should apologize as the Minister of Transport for not foreseeing the public’s response and making such a flawed decision based on a survey of a selected 1,000 individuals over three to four years from 2020 to 2023 as representative of the millions of commuters in Singapore.

Is the ganges river bigger than SG?

The saga of SimplyGo versus CBT cards is more than a debate over payment methods; it reflects how public policy should be formulated and implemented - with empathy, foresight, and a genuine willingness to listen to those it impacts the most.

Jill should ask more technical questions but she is clearly humanities oriented🤣🤭🏳

A 15-year-old student wrote to the Straits Times forum earlier this week, stating that he agrees with the criticism by Senior Minister of State for Finance and Transport Chee Hong Tat of the Workers’ Party (WP) for its opposition to the goods and services tax (GST) increase.

If telescope from distance if it was on purpose anyway? If really from 1 of the ship that's been there for so long? Maybe to pollute s.g anyway to create loss of food, difficulty for future plot of war(they have alot of people anyway)?

Hi beautiful day ..........

Netherlands-flagged dredger pilotted by a careless Chinese.

@martinbrock...sheer waste of talent. You should stand for election instead of wasting time posting thousands of comments.

As usual, sg always "good good" 👀🤭🫣

Is SG getting saferer and cleaner?🫣 We need Sea Water Laundering. Not money laundering

Will he ever say is congestion? 😅😂