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Clamity for Philippines : Guimaras oil spill
26/Aug/2006: Philippines President Arroyo yesterday declared the Guimaras oil spill as “a national calamity” and urged all Filipinos to cooperate in order to clean up the biggest and worst oil spill to affect the country so far.
She also ordered Task Force Guimaras to work with the private sector and the maritime industry to put up drop-off centers all over the country for human hair and chicken feathers and ensure their speedy transport in order to absorb the oil in the affected area.
Food conglomerate San Miguel Corp has committed to supply tons of chicken feathers daily while Reyes Haircutters has pledged a large bag of hair every day from each of its 2,000 salons.
The President said she received word that the location of oil tanker MT Solar 1, which sank last Aug. 11 on its way to Zamboanga, has been pinpointed by experts.
The tanker still contains 1.8 million liters of bunker fuel, which Petron Corp. ordered. Some 200,000 liters have been spilled in the Guimaras Strait. Although the oil spill mainly hit Western Visayas, the President declared the state of national calamity to allow the National Government to use its calamity funds.
Arroyo has ordered the release of P20 million to augment the calamity funds of the affected provinces. Of the amount, P10 million went to Guimaras and P5 million each to Iloilo and Negros Occidental.
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