On Monday afternoon, the emergency services in Kommuneqarfik Sermersooq were out to deal with a minor fuel spill at Kutterkajen in Nuuk.
The Greenland Police state that the report came in at 2:38 p.m. and that it was a continuation of a previously reported spill.
The emergency services' response leader, Jens Mikkelsen, explains to Sermitsiaq that Monday's spill occurred because some contaminated snow melted into the harbor basin, leaving an oil film on the water.
The response leader also says that the emergency services have laid out absorbent material to soak up the fuel.
The snow that melted on Monday was contaminated a few days ago when a ship dumped fuel-containing material into a pallet tank, which overflowed and overflowed.
