Browsing by Subject "benzene"

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    • 70 oil spill-affected families return home 

      Rendon, Jennifer P. (DailyGuardian, July 16, 2020, on page 1-11)
      Seventy families from Barangay Mansaya, Lapuz, Iloilo City returned home on Wednesday almost two weeks after an oil spill incident displaced them. Gabino Ramon Mejia, head of plant operations of AC Energy Philippines, said ...

    • AC Energy doing okay on clean-up, EMB head says 

      (DailyGuardian, July 17, 2020, on page 1-15)
      AC Energy Philippines, the owner of the barge which spilled bunker fuel into the coast of Iloilo City and Guimaras following an explosion on July 3, 2020, is doing okay in its clean-up activity, according to the regional ...

    • Another air quality test up in oil spill-hit Estancia 

      Nepomoceno, Jezza A. (The Daily Guardian, January 10, 2014, on page 2-7)
      Iloilo Governor Arthur Defensor Sr. on Thursday asked experts to conduct another test to determine the air quality at the oil spill site in Brgy. Botongon, Estancia. Defensor said that inspectors from the Environmental ...

    • Cavite gov downplays diesel spill destruction 

      Cinco, Maricar; Santos, Tina; Olchondra, Riza; Tubeza, Philip (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 10, 2013, on page A1-A2)
      A diesel oil spill on Manila Bay that raises potential environmental and health hazards and threatens to ruin the capital’s vital fishing industry has “95-percent” evaporated, leaving only “a thin film” of fuel on the ...

    • 'Estancia oil spill cleanup 75 % done' 

      Golez, Prince (Panay News, March 1, 2014, on page 1-10)
      Will the cleanup of the oil spill that hit Brgy. Botongon, Estancia, Iloilo, and spread to other municipalities in the 5th District be completed soon? Calentino Mempin, director for operations of the contractor Kuan Yu ...

    • Firm in oil spill ordered to do thorough job 

      Burgos, Nestor Jr. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, February 12, 2014, on page A20)
      A multiagency task force monitoring the oil spill in Estancia, Iloilo province, has directed a firm that got an P87-million contract to clean up the spill site to do a thorough job. “In our inspection of the contaminated ...

    • Iloilo City Oil Spill: Families return home safely | Relief ops, cleanup full speed ahead 

      PN (Panay News, July 21, 2020, on page 1-14)
      All 308 families that were displaced by the recent oil spill have returned home safely, with AC Energy Philippines keeping its promise to do everything it could to mitigate the societal and environmental impacts of the ...

    • 'Kuan Yu used wrong spill cleanup strategy' 

      Yap, Tara (The Daily Guardian, January 17, 2014, on page 1-7)
      Private contractor Kuan Yu Global Technologies Inc. implemented an ineffective strategy in cleaning up the oil spill in Estancia, Iloilo. “Even from the start, Kuan Yu never really followed the recommended procedures,” ...

    • Life-choking plastic garbage 

      Mana-ay, Edgar (DailyGuardian, September 16, 2019, on page 6-7)
      Since a lot of plastic items we use are low cost and disposable, we create an awful lot of plastic trash. Hundreds of tons of plastic rubbish have been removed during the cleanup of Manila Bay and this is just along the ...

    • Militants raise concern over 'oil spill deaths' 

      PN (Panay News, February 16, 2014, on page 2)
      "We could have avoided loss of life had there been appropriate response from the government to the oil spill in Estancia." this was the statement issued by Task Force (TF) Buliganay, a network of progressive people's ...

    • Oil spill affects 31 Barangays, 300-Square-km of Manila Bay 

      Namit, Madel Sabater; Giron, Anthony; Antonio, Reymund F.; Manongdo, Jenny F. (Manila Bulletin, August 11, 2013, on page 1-13)
      Half-a-million liters of diesel that leaked from a submarine pipeline, or a tanker moored off the coast have covered a 300-square kilometer area of Manila Bay, affecting 31 Barangays in the towns of rosario, Naic Tanza, ...

    • Oil spill victims seek court help 

      PN (Panay News, January 21, 2014, on page 2-14)
      Oil spill victims in Estancia town charged the government-owned Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corp. (PSALM) and the National Power Corp. (Napocor) demanding over P300 million in compensation and damages. ...

    • Oil spill worker dies: Defensor orders probe 

      Sologastoa, Glenda (Panay News, January 29, 2014, on page 14)
      Did foul odor kill a 26-year-old oil spill worker in Brgy. Botongon, Estancia?. Donnie Trogo was a patinet at the Jesus M. Colmenares Memorial District Hospital in Balasan, near Estancia. Former Estancia Sangguniang Bayan ...

    • Spill cleanup on the right track: AC Energy doing a good job, says EMB 

      PN (Panay News, July 17, 2020, on page 1-14)
      AC Energy Philippines, owner of the power barge which spilled bunker fuel into the coast of Iloilo City and Guimaras following an explosion on July 3, is doing okay in its cleanup activity, said the regional chief of the ...

    • Water at Japan's new Tsukiji fish market contaminated 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Manila Bulletin, April 7, 2018, on page 6)
      Tokyo officials said Friday they had found levels of benzene 130 times above the recommended amount in groundwater at the new site for the country’s famed Tsukiji fish market. The high levels of contamination were detected ...

    • World's biggest fish market will be moved 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (BusinessWorld, June 22, 2017, on page S1/9)
      Tokyo's famed Tsukiji fish market -- the world's biggest -- will be moved to a new location, the city's top official confirmed Tuesday, after months of delays over concerns about toxic contamination at the new site. But ...