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[Title] => ‘Sunken barge carrying oil debris not chartered by Petron’
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ILOILO CITY — Nobody’s claiming responsibility for the sinking of the barge Ras, which was carrying oil debris when it sunk Monday night.
"I’m very definite about it, that Petron did not charter the barge," Malou Erni of Petron Foundation said during a press conference yesterday, shortly after reading a press release from Harbor Star Shipping Services Inc.
Erni made her statements in reaction to Malacañang’s order for an investigation into the sinking of the Ras.
[DatePublished] => 2006-11-24 00:00:00
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[Title] => Guimaras moves to revive fishing
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A come-on for fisher folk to return to fishing following the Aug. 11 oil spill could just be the start of an annual festival in the province of Guimaras.
Rafael Coscolluela, presidential adviser for the Western Visayas and Task Force Guimaras regional chairman, has broached the idea of holding a fiesta in the island province where fish caught from waters off the province will be cooked and served to fishermen and other residents.
"We would like to advise the people to (get) back into fishing and start eating fish," he said.
[DatePublished] => 2006-10-27 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Jaime Laude
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[ArticleID] => 363077
[Title] => Ray of hope
[Summary] => A very important piece of proposed legislation hurdled its biggest stumbling block last week after the Senate approved the biofuels bill, many months after the House gave its imprimatur to the measure.
The Biofuels Act of 2005 mandates an initial five percent blend of bioethanol to gasoline as a starting point of a fuel ethanol program that is looked upon as a measure to help the government achieve rural development, environmental protection, and energy security.
[DatePublished] => 2006-10-15 00:00:00
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[Title] => Australia boosts Guimaras aid fund
[Summary] => Australia is contributing $147,400 in emergency aid to the Philippines following a major oil spill in waters off Guimaras province that displaced thousands of residents and damaged pristine marine environments.
The Australian embassy said the fund would be used to provide shelter, food and school supplies for children in the worst-affected areas. The money would also be used to fund day-care centers and buy tents, medicine, water and sanitation equipment, the embassy statement added.
[DatePublished] => 2006-09-19 00:00:00
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[ArticleID] => 358314
[Title] => Petron officials say firm complies with rules on chartering oil vessels
[Summary] => Petron officials recently disclosed that it complied with marine regulations because it has been chartering double hull, double bottom ships for transporting its oil cargo, under its shipping alliance project, even before the M/T Solar I vessel oil spill in Guimaras.
The oil firm was the first in the country that chartered such kind of vessel in compliance with the requirement of the International Monitoring Organization, said Steve del Mar, industrial marketing coordinator of Petron-VisMin, in the recent 888 News Forum at Parklane Hotel in Cebu City.
[DatePublished] => 2006-09-15 00:00:00
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[Title] => 27 channel swimmers brave Guimaras spill
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ILOILO CITY — Less than a month after the worst oil spill in Philippine history, swimmers braved the waters off Iloilo for an annual cross-channel race.
The 27 hardy competitors numbered far below the hundred or more who normally take part in the swim between the islands of Guimaras and this city.
Most of those who pulled out cited the Aug. 11 sinking of the M/T Solar I off Guimaras, which resulted in the spilling of at least 50,000 gallons of bunker fuel, polluting fishing grounds, mangroves, corals and marine reserves.
[DatePublished] => 2006-09-10 00:00:00
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[ArticleID] => 356725
[Title] => DOTC to check captains' licenses
[Summary] => The Department of Transportation and Communication will soon check the licenses of the ship captains of all domestic vessels pursuant to orders given by President Gloria Arroyo.
This after one of the findings of the Board of Marine Inquiry that the M/T Solar I, which caused the oil spill in Guimaras Island, was manned by a ship captain with an expired license.
The extensive review to be conducted by the Maritime Industry Authority of the more than 10,000 ship captains nationwide was ordered to take effect as soon as possible.
[DatePublished] => 2006-09-06 00:00:00
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[Title] => AK-47s for Blue Guards? You must be kidding!
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For our special guest tonight on our talkshow on Straight from the Sky, we bring you a very special treat and an intimate discussion on a very common problem called Sleep Disorder. Are you having problems sleeping? Let's get a little more blunt. Do you snore? If you didn't know, snoring has been accepted as one of the reasons why marriages end up in divorce, of course in countries where divorce is legal. But what about here where we have no such laws?
[DatePublished] => 2006-08-28 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 135522
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[AuthorName] => Bobit S. Avila
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[ArticleID] => 354662
[Title] => EDITORIAL - Lessons not learned
[Summary] => 
Oil refiner Petron Corp. is in deep sludge, and it will be buried deeper as residents in the coastal areas affected by the country’s worst oil spill suffer the health costs of exposure to bunker fuel. The oil giant, however, has a deep well of funds and will survive the disaster of M/T Solar I much easier than the environment around Guimaras. Petron should learn some lessons from the sinking of the tanker. Will the Philippine maritime industry learn anything from this catastrophe?
[DatePublished] => 2006-08-26 00:00:00
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[Title] => Robots tapped to siphon oil from sunken tanker
[Summary] => 
Send in the robots.
Where humans fear to tread, robots will — all in an effort to contain the worst oil spill in the Philippines, which now threatens the islands in Cebu province.
Petron Corp. will be using deep-sea submersible robots to siphon off nearly two million liters of bunker oil from the tanker that sank over half a kilometer from shore in the waters off Guimaras Island, company officials said yesterday.
[DatePublished] => 2006-08-24 00:00:00
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