Ship with 1.35M liters of oil raises spill fears

By Dexter A. See

May 29, 2023 12:18 am

LINGAYEN, Pangasinan: Gov. Ramon Guico 3rd has asked the Bureau of Customs (BoC) to remove a ship loaded with more than a million liters of oil from Sual Bay, where it has been docked since May 3, 2023.

'The ship should be moved to a safer location to protect the bay area from destruction, in the event the crude oil from the ship leaks into the bay,' Guico said this week in an emergency meeting he called at the Urduja House.

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