DAGUPAN CITY—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 communities. Lawyer Ayar Montemayor, spokesperson of the Bolinao government, said Mayor Alfonso Celeste had written the ship’s owners [...]
The U.S. Justice Department and the five Gulf coast states affected by a massive oil spill nearly three years ago have indicated they would like to settle their environmental and economic claims with BP PLC ahead of a trial scheduled to start next week.
To prevent damage to marine life and ecosystem at Calapan, Mindoro pier where a vessel partially sunk Thursday, the Philippine Coast Guard deployed a team to prevent oil spill in the area.
While the damaged fuel pipeline in this town had been repaired and the diesel leak had stopped spreading into the water sources and waterways in communities here, a local official said residents have complained of skin problems due to handling of fuel-laced water.
Two BP rig supervisors and a former BP executive pleaded not guilty Wednesday to criminal charges stemming from the deadly Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and the company’s response to the massive 2010 spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Residents of a fishing village in San Agustin, Romblon, raised an alarm over an oil slick that has affected their catch in the water close to where a tugboat ran aground on Oct. 24 at the height of Tropical Storm “Ofel.”
Clean-up efforts were under way early Thursday after some 300,000 gallons of diesel fuel spilled into the waters off New York City in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy, CNN reported.The spill was caused by a rupture in a storage tank at a nearby New Jersey refinery run by Motiva, part-owned by oil giant Shell, it said.
Chevron Corp. has paid a multimillion-dollar fine for several “irregularities” in connection with last year’s oil spill off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil’s National Petroleum Agency said.
An oil-spill incident occurred at a gasoline station in Casinglot village, Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental Tuesday dawn, a report from the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said.
The lawyer of nearly 1,000 claimants for damages in the 2006 oil spill in Guimaras said his clients would pursue the P291-million class suit against Petron Corp. and the owner of the ill-fated cargo vessel even up to the Supreme Court.
The spill of some 10,000 liters of automotive diesel oil into the sea due to a leak in a pipeline in La Union on Tuesday has been contained, the Philippine Coast Guard said Thursday.
The Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) issued a cease and desist order to oil depot operators at Poro Point in San Fernando City after thousands of liters of oil leaked from the depot’s pipelines on Tuesday.
Fifty-year-old Amando Cornel was a fisherman most of his life; now, he hardly goes out to fish. He goes to a 15-hectare farm in Nueva Valencia town in Guimaras to learn how to grow fruit trees and organic vegetables.
