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 Saturday from a damaged power barge in nearby Iloilo. They started using improvised spill booms to contain oil sheen that reached their shores. “We are trying to contain it. But residents of coastal barangays have also stopped fishing and shell gathering because their nets and boats are coated with oil,” Mayor Eugene Reyes of Buenavista town in Guimaras, told the Inquirer on Monday.

Burgos, N. P. Jr., Domingo, R., & Enano, J. O. (2020, July 7). Guimaras folk stop fishing as oil spill reaches their shores. Philippine Daily Inquirer, p. A5.