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sank and spilled 800,000 liters of industrial oil off the coast of Oriental Mindoro, has arrived in Calapan City, authorities said Monday.
“We are already combating it at around 4.4 nautical miles. There are oil sheens, but some are making a landfall which are black in color,” the PCG Batangas leader told radio DZBB.But in the afternoon, Coast Guard spokesperson Armando Balilo said the island was “negative” for the oil spill after an aerial inspection.
Balilo said the PCG requested help from the US, including another ROV that could help find the sunken tanker. Environmental groups including Oceana Philippines, Greenpeace Philippines, and Center for Energy, Ecology, and Development on Monday raised the alarm over the continued spread of the oil spill from the sunken tanker and called for a sustained and thorough investigation.
BFAR chief information officer Nazario Briguera said that 19,000 fishermen in nine municipalities in Oriental Mindoro were affected by the oil slick, and this translated to P5 million lost every day. The Department of Social Welfare and Development , meanwhile, said more than 150,000 people have been affected by the massive oil spill in Oriental Mindoro.
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