With fishing suspended in Oriental Mindoro areas affected by the MT Princess Empress oil spill, fishermen and Kalima villagers help clean up the oil that has reached their coastlines.
ORIENTAL MINDORO, Philippines – For fishermen in Pola, Oriental Mindoro, a new morning routine now includes gathering spilled oil that reached their shorelines., village residents volunteered to help collect the oil that reached the municipality after oil tanker MT Princess Empress capsized near Romblon on February 28.
When the villagers first started cleaning up the oil on March 1, they were not sure what to do with it, the barangay official said.Oriental Mindoro Governor
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