Palace assures overall oil spill cleanup done by June
MANILA – The last phase of the oil spill cleanup in Oriental Mindoro will be completed within a month, Malacañang announced on Saturday. Communication Secretary Cheloy Garafil made the assurance after the arrival of a dynamic support vessel (DSV), which will be used to siphon the remnants of the 800,000 liters of industrial fuel oil from […]
Last phase of oil spill cleanup in Oriental Mindoro begins
MANILA – The last phase of siphoning operations for the remaining oil off the waters of Naujan town in Oriental Mindoro began Sunday, three months after the massive spill from the sunken M/T Princess Empress, the Philippine Coast Guard said. PCG Incident Management Team-Oriental Mindoro head Commodore Geronimo Tuvilla said the operations would last from 20-30 […]
Mindoro oil spill cleanup enters final phase
MANILA – Efforts to clean up the massive oil spill in Mindoro are now on its final phase with the arrival of a vessel intended for siphon operations, the National Task Force on Oil Spill Management said Thursday. The task force said the dynamic support vessel “Fire Opal” arrived in Oriental Mindoro on May 28. It said […]
Siphoning ops recover several liters of oil from sunken tanker
MANILA – The cargo oil tanks (COT) of the sunken M/T Princess Empress in the waters off Naujan, Oriental Mindoro have been opened and several liters of oil recovered in the ongoing siphoning operations. In an update posted on its Facebook page Friday, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) reported that the Malayan Towage and Salvage Corporation […]
DSWD kicks off new set of cash payouts for Mindoro fisherfolk
MANILA – The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) on Friday said it started the distribution of cash assistance for the full recovery of formal and informal fisherfolk heavily affected by the Mindoro oil spill. In a news release, the DSWD said its Field Office (FO) in Mimaropa on Thursday kicked off the cash payout […]