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The area of the fish ban in Oriental Mindoro may be reduced from the current 15 kilometers (km) to 5 km after the oil cleaning operation in the spill site ended on June 16, a Department of Science and Technology (DOST) expert recommended. At the same time, the total fish…
The PCG projected that the siphoning of the remaining oil from the sunken MT Princess Empress in the waters of Oriental Mindoro would be completed on or before June 19, earlier than the timeframe estimated by the National Task Force on Oil Spill Management.
Of MT Princess Empress' eight tankers, two still contain a significant amount of oil, Philippine Coast Guard spokesperson Armand Balilo says
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) on Saturday said two tanks on the sunken MT Princess Empress remained intact with oil in them, and these would be drilled and the oil would be siphoned out next week.
Malacañang adds that the Dynamic Support Vessel, the ship that will extract the remaining oil, had arrived in the country on May 26