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Environmental disaster feared with spread of bunker fuel spill
 P40M in oil sinks, tanker could explode
Three offices ransacked; Vice mayor gets threats
Crop production loss from floods P4.72M
City payroll delayed
 One teener surrenders, 2 nabbed for 'gang rape'
NPA burns cargo truck
Suspect in killing of teacher dropped
Pa seeks probe of baby's death
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Environmental disaster feared
with spread of bunker fuel spill
BY CARLA P. GOMEZ & NESTOR BURGOS

The Coast Guard and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources yesterday were racing against time to prevent a major environmental disaster as oil seeped from a tanker that sank between Guimaras and Negros Islands Friday.

The spill is threatening marine life and the tourism industry of Western Visayas, officials said, and moving closer to Negros Occidental.

The Coast Guard in Bacolod had a Marine Environment Protection Unit, assisted by trained personnel of oil firms in the province, on standby to set up spill booms in case the oil slick approaches Negros, to help prevent its entry into the area, Chief Petty Officer Cornelio Barbasa said yesterdaymoremoremore

P40M in oil sinks,
tanker could explode
BY NESTOR BURGOS

ILOILO CITY -- There is a danger that the sunken tanker beyond the reach of divers could break up and explode, Capt. Luis Tuason Jr., Coast Guard commander in Western Visayas, said yesterday.

The clean up of the oil spill from the sunken vessel could take from six to eight months, Tuason said.

The M/T Solar I sank 15 nautical miles southwest of Guimaras Island late Friday afternoon. moremoremore

IN EB MAGALONA
Three offices ransacked;
Vice mayor gets threats
BY CARLA P. GOMEZ

Vandals ransacked the offices of the Moises Padilla Sangguniang Bayan, the Vice Mayor, and the Commission on Elections over the weekend and left death threats on the wall of the office of Vice Mayor John Deles.

The damage was discovered yesterday morning. Deles said the culprits entered the office of the COMELEC on the second floor of the old municipal building and took a digital camera, and then entered the SB office where nothing appeared to have been stolen.

However, the culprits cut the wires of computers, a refrigerator, telephones, fax machines, the water dispenser and a tape recorder, tore up documents and left graffiti on the wall in the SB and vice mayor's offices, Deles said. moremoremore
 
 
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