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PCG balancing safety, urgency in draining Terranova
The Philippine Star
|August 11, 2024
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) reiterated the need to be careful in draining over a million liters of industrial fuel from the submerged tanker Terranova.
“We are balancing the safety and the desire of the people to return to their normal lives,” said PCG Commandant Admiral Ronnie Gil Gavan in an interview over dwPM on Friday.
The painstaking approach in siphoning an estimated 1.4 million liters of industrial fuel from Terranova – which sank 34 meters deep and 3.6 nautical miles off Lamao Point in Limay town, Bataan – should not affect nearby highly industrialized areas and “sensitive” marine and coastal areas, he said.
According to an update from the PCG’s Bataan oil spill incident commander Michael John Encina, the salvage company in charge of siphoning operations for
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