Dog walkers have been told to look out for palm oil on Brighton’s beaches after a huge hunk of the toxic substance was found by a local artist near the Ovingdean Gap cafe.
Stacey Manser-Knight was helping to tidy up the beach here when she came across the palm oil. She sent a picture to 2minutebeachclean, who tweeted out a warning yesterday.
☠️#Brighton (Ovingdean cafe area) #PalmOil found. Alert local dog walkers. Do not touch without gloves.
Fatal to dogs. Smells of petrol ☠️ pic.twitter.com/e2WboN82il— #2Minutebeachclean (@2minbeachclean) February 27, 2017
This morning, Newhaven Coastguard repeated the warning, and asked anyone who spots any in Brighton and Hove to report to the city council’s environmental health team.
It posted on Facebook: “DOG WALKERS BEWARE. We are seeing reports this morning of a substance which may be Palm Oil (or similar) on the beach in the Rottingdean & Saltdean areas. Any sightings should be reported to your local Council Environmental Health Officer.”
Last week I was in Telscombe and there was 2 ft deep of foam, it was blowing up and over the cliff. Looked like detergent
Are they sure it’s palm oil and not ambergris?
My bordercollie goes no where near anything like This!! I think the owners should be looking out for there dogs when walking them, 2 years back I was walking my dog and was on telecoms beach to notice one day he was digging something up I ran Upton him within seconds, to find it was just a stone, owners are responsible to look after there pets!! And when walking them just watch them like a child!!
I thought palm oil came from … a palm tree! It’s why they are burning down entire forests, all animals burnt alive, to grow palms which produce the oil.