SOUTH RIDING POINT, Grand Bahama More than three weeks after Hurricane Dorian ravaged the northern Bahamas, the stench of oil was still heavy in the air on this remote stretch of Grand Bahamas southeast coast. Oil storage tanks at a shipping terminal owned by Norwegian energy giant Equinor sat coated in a layer of crude as if someone had gone at them with an enormous paintbrush.

Dozens of workers, many dressed in plastic hazmat suits, hardhats and boots, were using vacuum trucks and absorbent pads to mop up thousands of barrels of oil that spilled during the Category 5 storm. Other cleanup crews used bulldozers to haul away oil-stained soil and trees. A nearly mile-long swath of forest northeast of the facility remained covered in black sludge.

HuffPost visited the polluted terminal last week and asked to speak with someone about the ongoing response to the hurricane damage. A security guard manning the main entrance said repeatedly that no reporters were allowed on the site.

According to Equinor, 280 people are working to clean up the disaster a month after the storm. Although the company has not said how much oil actually spilled, spokesman Eskil Eriksen told HuffPost in a Wednesday email that crews have recovered more than 22,000 barrels or 924,000 gallons of petroleum product at and around the facility. Thats more than three times the 6,000 barrels of oil the company had recovered as of Sept. 24 indicating that the spill is much bigger than previously suggested.

The ongoing disaster and cleanup effort serve as yet another reminder of the threat that rapidly worsening climate change poses to coastal fossil fuel infrastructure around the globe, much of which is not built to sustain storms of Dorians magnitude.