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                    [ArticleID] => 458841
                    [Title] => Mining firm raps DENR executive for 'bias, false reports'
                    [Summary] => 

MANILA, Philippines - A mining company is poised to file charges against the acting regional director of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources’ Environmental Management Bureau based in Iloilo for alleged bias and filing false reports against it.

[DatePublished] => 2009-04-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 352923 [Title] => Government races to stop environmental disaster from oil spill [Summary] => The Philippine Coast Guard said yesterday it was racing against time to prevent a major environmental disaster as oil seeped from a tanker that sunk in heavy seas over the weekend.

The tanker, Solar I, was carrying two million liters of bunker oil when it sank off the central island of Guimaras on Saturday.

Sixteen crewmen were rescued while two were still reported missing.
[DatePublished] => 2006-08-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1711399 [AuthorName] => Ronilo Pamonag [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 322388 [Title] => ‘Semirara rehab to take 10 years’ [Summary] => ILOILO CITY — Antique Gov. Salvacion Zaldivar-Perez said the rehabilitation of areas on Semirara Island affected by the massive oil spill could take 10 years, as she described the damage to be "very wide."

"We need professional cleaners, not just the residents," she said in a public affairs program.

Perez said the oil spill left Semirara residents with no means of livelihood since "their seaweed (farms) are all gone, so do the fishes."
[DatePublished] => 2006-02-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1711399 [AuthorName] => Ronilo Pamonag [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 318994 [Title] => Cost of Semirara oil spill cleanup may reach P90 M [Summary] => The cost of cleaning up the oil spill off Semirara Island in Antique could reach P90 million, a Coast Guard official said.

Cmdr. Allen Toribio, deputy commander of the Coast Guard’s Marine Environmental Protection Command, estimated that it would take from six months up to a year to remove the thousands of liters of bunker oil that had leaked out from a National Power Corp. (Napocor) oil tanker that ran aground off the island last Dec. 19.
[DatePublished] => 2006-01-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1546326 [AuthorName] => Nestor Etolle [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) ) )
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