Browsing by Subject "floating barriers"

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    • 105 families flee bunker oil fumes: PCG mulls raps vs barge owner for oil spill 

      Silubrico, Ruby; Co, Adrian Stewart (Panay News, July 6, 2020, on page 1-14)
      Harsh fumes from the bunker fuel that spilled from a power barge in Barangay Bo. Obrero, Lapuz district here drove 105 families or 378 persons away from their houses, according to the City Disaster Risk Reduction and ...

    • ATI backs Manila Bay rehab 

      (Malaya, February 8, 2019, on page A7)
      ASIAN Terminals Inc. (ATI), operator of international gateway port Manila South Harbor, expressed readiness to support multisectoral efforts, led by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), to bring ...

    • Avoiding oil spill first step in salvaging sunken ship 

      Newman, Minerva B. C. (Manila Bulletin, June 29, 2019, on page 5)
      The salvage company that will refloat the cargo ship that sank at a private port here will concentrate first on recovering any fuel oil left in the vessel to prevent it from contaminating the surrounding waters. The M/V ...

    • 'Bad accident': Ayala firm brings in team to probe barge blast, oil spill 

      Rendon, Jennifer P. (DailyGuardian, July 7, 2020, on page 1-11)
      Despite claims by the Bureau of Fire Protection- Region 6 (BFP-6) that negligence and recklessness caused the explosion in Power Barge 102, Ayala-owned AC Energy Philippines said they’re still unsure of what really caused ...

    • Barge explosion leads to oil spill: 48,000 liters of oil leaked into Iloilo City waters - Coast Guard 

      Rendon, Jennifer P. (DailyGuardian, July 4, 2020, on page 1-11)
      An estimated 48,000 liters of oil spilled into the waters of Iloilo City following an explosion in a power barge operated by AC Energy Philippines in Bo. Obrero, Lapuz, Iloilo City afternoon of July 3, 2020. Lieutenant ...

    • Barrier removal BBM's call - PCG 

      Ayeng, Raffy; Garner, Jom; Kabagani, Lade Jean (Daily Tribune, September 26, 2023, on page A1-A6)
      Dismantling the floating barrier that China installed at Scarborough Shoal or Bajo de Masinloc is a matter for President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to decide, a Philippine Coast Guard official said yesterday. Commodore Jay ...

    • BBM: China's barrier deprived Pinoys of 164 tons of fish daily 

      Piatos, Tiziana Celine (Daily Tribune, September 30, 2023, on page A2)
      President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Friday defended the removal by the Philippine Coast Guard of a floating barrier installed by China in the West Philippine Sea, saying that it was necessary to protect the country's maritime ...

    • 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 ...

    • China on floating barrier removal: 'Nothing more than self-amusement' 

      Garner, Jom; Labrador, Pedring; Villamente, Jing (Daily Tribune, September 29, 2023, on page A1-A2)
      The word war between the Philippines and China continued Wednesday after Beijing called Manila's removal of the floating barrier at Scarborough Shoal "nothing more than self-amusement." China Foreign Ministry spokesperson ...

    • China sets up floating barrier in Panatag Shoal 

      Villeza, Mark Ernest; Lee-Brago, Pia (The Philippine Star, September 25, 2023, on page 1-6)
      The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) and the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) yesterday condemned the China Coast Guard (CCG)’s recent installation of a floating barrier in the southeast area of Panatag Shoal. ...

    • City drops oil spill suit 

      Celebria, Limuel S. (DailyGuardian, July 23, 2020, on page 4)
      Early this week, Iloilo City Mayor Jerry P. Treñas announced that “I am satisfied” with the AC Energy Philippines (ACEPh) response to the oil spill that occurred off the shores of Bo. Obrero following an explosion that ...

    • Cleanup methods for oil spill 

      (DailyGuardian, August 1, 2020, on page 8-10)
      An explosion in Power Barge 102 triggered an oil spill in Iloilo Strait last July 3, 2020. It affected coastal areas in Bo. Obrero, Lapuz where it is located and has reached other communities and even Guimaras Island ...

    • Coast Guard confirms oil spill from ferry 

      Freeman News (The Philippine Star, August 19, 2013, on page 10)
      While many passengers have yet to be retrieved from the M/V St. Thomas Aquinas, another growing concern is the oil spill which the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) has confirmed to have spread after the ship sank at Lawis Ledge ...

    • Coast Guard to finish oil spill recovery process by July 12 

      Rendon, Jennifer P. (DailyGuardian, July 8, 2020, on page 1-11)
      Barring any unforeseen circumstances, the Philippine Coast Guard-Iloilo Station has set July 10, or at most July 12, 2020, to finish the recovery process of the oil spill that leaked out of Power Barge 102. Lieutenant ...

    • Containment and retrieval are a must - oil spill expert 

      Angelo, Francis Allan L. (DailyGuardian, July 6, 2020, on page 1-10)
      The images of the oil spill caused by an explosion in a power barge stationed in Lapuz, Iloilo City on July 3, 2020 brought back images of similar incidents in Guimaras, Estancia, Iloilo and Semirara, Antique. For UP-Visayas ...

    • Crews try to protect wildfire from Texas oil spill 

      Associated Press (AP) (Manila Bulletin, January 26, 2010, on page 13)
      Crews worked Sunday to protect two sensitive wildlife areas after a crude oil spill shut down parts of a major southeast Texas port, state Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson said. Plastic walls known as booms and oil-sucking ...

    • Estancia oil spill cleanup procedure questioned 

      Sologastoa, Glenda; Nepomoceno, Jezza (Panay News, January 15, 2014, on page 1-14)
      The oil spill response program manager of the Univesity of the Philippine Visayas and consultant of Gov. Arthur Defensor Sr. has expressed dissatisfaction over the cleanup in Brgy. Botongon, Estancia town. Dr. Resurrection ...

    • Fish kill in Guimaras linked to new oil spill 

      Burgos, Nestor Jr.; Aning, Jerome C. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, January 23, 2014, on page A6)
      Guimaras officials and residents have reported a case of fish kill along the coast of a village contaminated by bunker fuel from a sunken vessel. Teresita Siason, coordinator of the Guimaras provincial risk reduction and ...

    • Garbage booms set up to keep Iloilo River clean. 

      De los Santos, Maricyn A. (The Daily Guardian, July 18, 2017, on page B7)
      The Iloilo city government through the City Agriculture Office has the installation of garbage boom in bodies of water here to track the barangays which are sources of garbage found in Iloilo River. Garbage boom is a ...

    • Guimaras folk stop fishing as oil spill reaches their shores 

      Burgos, Nestor P. Jr.; Domingo, Ronnel; Enano, Jhesset O. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, July 7, 2020, on page A5)
      Fourteen years after Guimaras was devastated by the worst oil spill in the country when the MT Solar I tanker sank, residents of the island-province are again trying to contain the spread of bunker fuel that leaked on ...