An alcohol fermenting plant faces penalties following the spill of 46,000 liters of molasses that was initially ruled as the cause of the fish kill downstream of the Pampanga River on Sept. 20. Lormelyn Claudio, director of the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) in Central Luzon, said the Far East Alcohol Corp. (Feaco), based in Apalit town in Pampanga province, violated Republic Act No. 9275, or the Clean Water Act of 2004. An EMB team found that one of the company’s storage tanks was damaged, “causing the raw molasses to leak/spill into the Pampanga River.”

Orejas, T. (2017, October 7). Alcohol plant faces fines for fish kill. Philippine Daily Inquirer, p. A14.