Four months after tanker MT Princess Empress sank off the waters of Oriental Mindoro and spilled toxic fuel oil into the sea, affected residents were still waiting for “concrete” government actions on how to prevent the same from happening again.
Citing the latest testing of the sample waters in Oriental Mindoro by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, the PIO said the fishing ban in Pola had to stay due to the presence of toxic polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons in its waters. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are a class of chemicals that occur naturally in coal, crude oil, and gasoline.
On June 17, the Philippine Coast Guard said it had completed siphoning off the remaining oil from the sunken tanker.But Protect VIP believed that only by including the VIP in the Expanded National Integrated Protected Areas System Act of 2018 that its waters and rich marine resources, the lifeblood of thousands of fishing families, could be protected.
Protect VIP lamented that VIP has now become the “epicenter” of fossil gas and liquefied natural gas developments in the country, as eight of the 27 proposed new plants and seven of the nine planned LNG terminals in the country are located in Batangas.
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