The move comes after Union environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan made a spot visit to the second oil spill in a year from an ONGC pipe in Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu.
Natarajan said, "I am going to review the conditions applied when giving clearances for pipelines and if required impose new ones."
She added, "The ministry will give notice to the ONGC to decommission all unused pipelines and to set in place a formal approved protocol for it."
Natarajan visited the spot where sources in the ministry said a pipeline set up in 2003 and not in use anymore had leaked, damaging croplands and pumping oil into an irrigation canal.
She noted that the company had informed that hazardous waste was being disposed off in a pit instead of being sent through a legally-mandated treatment facility. She said the company would also be sent a notice on the issue.
"I am also going to talk to the Union minister for petroleum and natural gas, Veerappa Moily to ensure that there affected people, whose lands are damaged are not only given a compensation but also provided a rehabilitation package," she said.
She pointed to the need of implementing the state-of-art technologies to monitor oil carrying pipelines noting that ONGC alone had 30,000 km of pipelines across the country.
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