Gov't to hasten oil spill cleanup

Gov't to hasten oil spill cleanup – Marcos

By Catherine S. Valente

Mar 09, 2023 12:43 am

PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said on Wednesday that the government is working to finish the cleanup of the oil spill from the sunken MT Princess Empress in Oriental Mindoro in less than four months.

Marcos added that the volume of oil spilled in the waters of Mindoro was less compared to the 2006 oil spill in Guimaras that took four months to mop up.

This handout photo taken on March 8, 2023 and released by the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) shows coast guard personnel and volunteers collecting debris covered with oil during a clean-up along the coast in Pola, Oriental Mindoro Province, days after an oil spill from a sunken tanker. Handout / Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) / AFP

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