Officials and residents here have doubled their efforts to protect their coastal communities as the threat of more spilled industrial oil reaching its shores loomed with the end of the “amihan” or the northeast monsoon. Traces of oil spill from MT Princess Empress, which carried 800,000 liters of industrial fuel when sank off the town of Naujan in Oriental Mindoro on Feb. 28, reached this provincial capital on Thursday, with city workers, residents, and Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) personnel immediately mobilized to clean up the waters.

Virola, M. T. (2023, March 20). More Calapan areas seen to be hit by spill. Philippine Daily Inquirer, p. A8.