POLA, Oriental Mindoro (AFP) – A crab covered in oil creeps across the sand as fishermen wearing white protective suits, rubber gloves, and respirator masks scrape toxic sludge from the rocks along the shore. A CRAB is covered with oil on a beach in Pola, Oriental Mindoro, one of the areas...
CALAPAN CITY, Oriental Mindoro – The United States Coast Guard cited the Philippine Coast Guard for its unique handling of the oil slick off the coast of this province. Stacy Crecy, leader of the US Coast Guard Pacific Strike Team, said the PCG was very well-organized due to its unique method of...
The United States will be supporting Filipino fisherfolk whose livelihood has been affected by an oil spill in Oriental Mindoro through training them to become citizen scientists in the meantime. The US Embassy in Manila said Friday that the US Agency for International Development (USAID) will...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. said Wednesday there was no need for the government to create a task force that would oversee the clean up of the oil spill that has spread from a sunken ship in the waters off Oriental Mindoro. Marcos said the Philippine Coast Guard was already leading...
Experts from the US have arrived in the Philippines at the request of the government to help in the clean up of the oil spill that has spread across different provinces from Oriental Mindoro. Among them are the five members of the US Coast Guard (USCG) National Strike, who will provide subject...
More oil slicks could reach the coast of Calapan City, Oriental Mindoro from March 20 to 22, the University of the Philippines Marine Science Institute (UP MSI) warned in its bulletin on Saturday, March 18. "Oil spill trajectories for March 16-22 show a northward shift with Calapan possibly...
Oil slicks caused by sunken MT Princess Empress have reached the coasts of Calapan City, Oriental Mindoro, the University of the Philippines Marine Science Institute (UP MSI) said in its bulletin on Friday, March 17. This was confirmed by the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) and the local Disaster Risk...
The Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) on Friday, March 17, released satellite images of the possible progression and scope of the oil spill caused by sunken MT Princess Empress on the coast of Oriental Mindoro. "This map shows possible oil spill extent in the coast of Oriental Mindoro as observed...
CITY OF CALAPAN, Oriental Mindoro (PNA) – The city government is now on alert after residents of Sitios Villa Antonio and Proper in Barangay Navotas reported traces of an oil slick on Thursday afternoon, March 16. In a phone interview on Friday, March 17, Dennis Escosora, head of the Calapan...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. was urged to personally intervene and order government agencies to contain the oil spill from a sunken tank off Oriental Mindoro. Protect Verde Island Passage (VIP), a coalition of sectors, communities, and organizations that advocate the protection of the...
The government shouldn't hold back from spending its resources for the clean-up of the Oriental Mindoro oil spill as well as the indemnification of affected coastal residents. Thus, said House Deputy Speaker and Batangas 6th district Rep. Ralph Recto as he placed a spotlight on the government’s...
The progressive Makabayan bloc on Thursday, March 16, has called for an investigation by the House of Representatives into the oil spill in Oriental Mindoro that has already affected the livelihood of nearby communities, reached as far as Palawan, and impacted 1.4 million hectares of the Verde...
