Browsing Philippine Daily Inquirer by Subject "oil spills"
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Antipolo firm may be sued over oil leak
(Philippine Daily Inquirer,September 10, 2015 , on page A17)Officials of Teresa town in Rizal province—which ended up a “catch basin” for spilled bunker fuel—were considering suing the cement company responsible for leaking oil into the Teresa River. Marlon Pielago, Teresa environment ... -
Bolinao asks vessel owners to stop spill
(Philippine Daily Inquirer,March 14, 2013 , on page A12)The town government of Bolinao, Pangasinan, has asked the owners of the sunken ship, MV Harita Bauxite, to immediately stop the vessel's oil from spilling into the West Philippine Sea to prevent further damaging coastal ... -
Burmese ship eyed in oil spill
(Philippine Daily Inquirer,March 2, 2013 , on page A13)The Philippine coast guard on Friday said that the oil spill reportedly contaminated the shorelines of 11 coastal barangay from La Union up to Ilocos Norte might have come from the sunken Burmese cargo ship MV Arita Bauxite. -
Cavite gov downplays diesel spill destruction
(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 ... -
Coast Guard sues firm for negligence over oil spill in Iloilo
(Philippine Daily Inquirer,July 13, 2020 , on page A6)The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) has filed a criminal complaint against the operator of a damaged power barge that spilled thousands of liters of bunker fuel into the waters of Iloilo and Guimaras Island. In a complaint ... -
DENR to reform existing policies to prevent oil spills
(Philippine Daily Inquirer,May 8, 2023 , on page A3)The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is looking to reform existing policies to prevent oil spills as it recently held discussions with local shipowners to form a technical working group. “We need to ... -
Firm in oil spill ordered to do thorough job
(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 ... -
Fish kill in Guimaras linked to new oil spill
(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 ... -
Gov't to determine fines for oil spill
(Philippine Daily Inquirer,July 6, 2020 , on page A1-A7)The Department of Environment and Natural Resources will issue a notice of violation of the Philippine Clean Water Act to the company operating the power barge that exploded and spilled oil off the coast of Iloilo City on ... -
Guimaras folk stop fishing as oil spill reaches their shores
(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 ... -
Guimaras villagers brace for oil spill
(Philippine Daily Inquirer,January 21, 2014 , on page A11)Coastal villages on Guimaras Island are bracing for an oil spill after bunker fuel coming from a sunken cargo ship reached their shores on Monday. While a possible oil spill would be much smaller compared to the massive ... -
Iloilo execs seek faster spill cleanup
(Philippine Daily Inquirer,January 19, 2014 , on page A8)An official monitoring the progress of operations to clean up the oil spill that aggravated the effects of Supertyphoon “Yolanda” on a town in northern Iloilo province is asking the firm handling the cleanup to work faster ... -
Iloilo oil spill evacuees now housed in hotels
(Philippine Daily Inquirer,July 11, 2020 , on page A8)From cramped and spartan rooms in evacuation centers, more than a thousand evacuees from areas affected by the oil spill in this city were transferred to air-conditioned hotel rooms starting Thursday evening. About 336 ... -
La Union board declares calamity state to deal with oil spill
(Philippine Daily Inquirer,March 2, 2013 , on page A8)The provincial board of La Union has declared the province under a state of calamity to enable towns affected by the oil spill supposedly from a sunken vessel or another ship to tap their calamity funds for cleanup operations. ... -
Manila Bay's fight for life
(Philippine Daily Inquirer,February 5, 2023 , on page A5)Manila Bay is not dead. But whether it is barely living or has a healthy ecosystem is another matter. And whether it thrives or dies is up to government. Since 2000, per the Department of Environment and Natural Resources ... -
Misamis Oriental village execs eye suit vs sunken ship owners over cleanup cost
(Philippine Daily Inquirer,May 3, 2021 , on page A6)Officials of a village in Jasaan town, Misamis Oriental province, are set to sue the owners of a sunken ship that caused an oil spill on their shores early last month. Sabas Tagarda Jr., village chief of Lower Jasaan, said ... -
No more fish to catch, or spilt fuel to collect
(Philippine Daily Inquirer,August 11, 2013 , on page A1-A6)Wearing the face masks given to them by health and social workers, Rodolfo Lasca, 49, and two neighbors arrived at the village basketball court yesterday to claim their emergency rice ration. Ever since a huge diesel oil ... -
Oil sheen spotted near Tubbataha Reef
(Philippine Daily Inquirer,May 2, 2023 , on page A5)Contingency measures were being readied after an oil sheen was spotted near Tubbataha Reef, a day after the dive yacht MY Dream Keeper sank in the vicinity of the world-renowned scuba diving site on Sunday, the Philippine ... -
Oil sludge removal starts in Ilocos
(Philippine Daily Inquirer,March 1, 2013 , on page A20)Using shovels, rakes and dust pans, and even spoons, government employees, residents, fishermen and volunteers from different towns of La Union tediously scooped and gathered the coagulated oil that had reached coastal ... -
Oil sludge taints mangroves in Oriental Mindoro
(Philippine Daily Inquirer,April 12, 2023 , on page A8)Traces of oil sludge were found in some mangroves at a village in Pola town, Oriental Mindoro province, that is still reeling from the impact of the oil spill from the sunken MT Princess Empress, an environmental study ...