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The clean-up has to take into account the ... and coral reefs could be hurt by the spill. The Philippines has dealt with oil spills before. In 2006, a tanker sank off the coast of another island ...
“Oil spills can never be cleaned up properly ... not readily available in the Philippines. Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said he hopes the clean up can be completed within four ...
She told Reuters that she and other volunteers cleaning the shore ... on Wednesday that he hopes the oil spill will be cleaned up in under four months, CNN Philippines reported.
The Philippines is no stranger to oil spills ... MV Princess of the Orient Oil Spill (1998) Up to 600,000 liters of oil spilled into the Manila Bay entrance after the MV Princess of the Orient ...
A vessel carrying roughly 370,000 gallons of industrial fuel oil capsized and sunk off of the Philippines on Thursday, causing an oil spill and killing ... the ship scooped up water until it ...
STORY: Wearing full personal protective equipment, more than 40 residents and coastguard personnel in the town of Pola worked to wipe thick sludge off rocks that lined the shore and collected sacks of ...
The Philippines ... major oil spills like BP’s Deepwater Horizon in 2012 and when MV Wakashio ran aground on a coral reef near Mauritius in 2020. We unpack how oil can be cleaned up and what ...