Guimaras Oil Spill

[pakman]

that's huge...the map i mean

what your screen's not wide enough??? :rofls:

 

[jonix]

what your screen's not wide enough??? :rofls:

:lol: :lol: :lol:

i'm using my cellphone

 

[Diver Dennis]

Gee, that's terrible you guys...

 

[jonix]

Gee, that's terrible you guys...

uhhhh...the small monitor or the oil spill? pakmike...it's rofl2


while the authorities should be rushing to contain and control the spill, the local government is busy looking for someone to blame :shakehead

 

[boljakool]

It looks like we've been tricked by those great PR team of Petron that we've already forgotten about what's happening in Guimaras and the mess that they've done.

The oil is still there and still destroying a huge part area of the waters around Negros.

I just received an email from BCD (a fellow PPDer) and I think it's worth posting and sharing with you guys.

Here it is:

Folks,

As you know i've been adamant about the recent oil spill caused by
Petron and their ill-equipped service providers. But honestly,
things have been hectic that I haven't been in step with the goings-
on.

It's great that Bats recently sent an email (thanks Bats) just to
keep us all back in the loop about this crisis - and my call is THAT
WE PARTICIPATE! !!

A recent oil spill also happened in Anilao - when is it going to end
and where?

My suggestion is we take part in steps to help Guimaras and also
help in any way we can for these "oil-rich" companies to improve
their practices. We were just considered "Center of the Center" in
biodiversity by Smithsonian professors no less, and we will fall
victims to the irresponsibilities of the "oil-rich" few.

Allow me to post Bats message at the end of this post and suggest a
few things:

1. Let's do our own fund-raising and donate extra goods - we don't
need to spend a lot, we just need to share our extra things.
2. Let's organize ourselves and plan out some small steps to reach
what I would suggest as 2 key objectives of our "project":
a. help rehabilitate Guimaras and assist the townfolk to stand up
again
b. help educate and influence the public to in turn influence the
oil companies to improve their practices

Let me know who is interested by this week (till Wednesday; thru PM,
text, email) and maybe we can set-up a meeting/get together/drinks
on Friday (maybe from 7-10pm) just to get the ball rolling.

Let's us all be divers-in-action.

Bobby

Bats' email (copied)

From: Batibut Cuyugan [mailto:batibut_cuyugan@ yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 3:20 PM
To: discheads-reg@ yahoogroups. com; monster_ultimate@ yahoogroups. com;
newbeeps@yahoogroup s.com; kythebigan@yahoogro ups.com;
updeltans_1946@ yahoogroups. com; AA Batch 93
Subject: CrossPost: Guimaras

Sorry for the cross-post. But we really gotta do something about
this. Please pass on!

Dive monsters,

Please forward to the scubaboard, etc. etc.

Thanks,
Bats

Dear Friends and Family,

I'll be going to Guimaras next week, to help distribute relief goods,
assist in a med-mission and do some social investigation of how the
resource-poor communities there conitnue to suffer becasue of the
oil-spill of two months back.

News of this hardly ever gets printed anymore these days (thanks to
the great work of Petron's PR Agency) but our contacts in the Visayas
and environment experts continue to say the damage done to lives and
nature will take years to rehabilitate.

Should you wish to donate goods or cash for the people of Guimaras,
please feel free to course them through me (or through the other
mechanisms I've pasted below.)

God bless!

Mark
p.s. To my diver-friends, do let me know if you have contacts in
Guimaras whom I can do a dive with ...I'd like to see the damage done
to coral cover myself, if possible.
____________ _________ ________
Sch. Mark L. Lopez, S.J.
Loyola House of Studies
Ateneo de Manila University
Loyola Heights, 1108 Quezon City

DONATION MECHANISMS:

1) GOODS

Needed: Rice, Canned Goods, Noodles and Medicines.
Medicine types :
- Loperamide
- Paracetamol
- Mefenamic Acid
- meds for the treatment of Dermatitis

Drop-in Center:
Office of Social Concerns and Involvement (OSCI)
Manny V. Pangilinan (MVP) Student Leadership Center
Ateneo de Manila University, Loyola Heights, Quezon City
Time: Office Hours 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Contact Persons: Ms. Ann Manapat (Director)
Mr. Bob Pamisa
Telephone Number: 426-6001 locals 5090/5091

2) CASH and CHECK

a) Direct Deposits may be made through any BPI Branch
nationwide:

BANK OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS
(Loyola-Katipunan Branch)
Peso Checking Account Number 3081-1111-61
Dollar Checking Account Number 3084-0420-12
Payee/Account Name: SIMBAHANG LINGKOD NG BAYAN

For proper acknowledgment:
- Please fax a copy of the validated deposit slip to SLB
through telefax 426-5968
- Kindly indicate contact information: Name, Address, Email,
Mobile
Those who wish to remain anonymous may skip this procedure.

b) You may also present your cash and check donations to:

Loyola House of Studies
Ateneo de Manila University
Loyola Heights, Quezon City
Time: 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.

Official Receipts will be immediately issued to you by the Lobby
Porter

3) INDICATIONS for either Milenyo or Guimaras or both

Please indicate if you wish to dedicate your donations either for
Milenyo or Guimaras only. Otherwise, we trust that you will leave
it to the university-wide committee that has been formed in
cooperation with SLB to manage the allocation based on reports from
partner institutions.

Should there be any concerns, please contact any of the following:

Scholastic Mark Lopez, SJ
Telephone Number 426-6101
Email: mrklpz@gmail. com

Ms. Marjorie Tejada
Telephone Number 426-6101 local 3440
Telefax 426-5968
Email: slb@slb.ph

Simbahang Lingkod ng Bayan (SLB)
and
ADMU Disaster Response and Management (DREAM) Team

TASK FORCE NOAH
for victims of Typhoon Milenyo and Guimaras Oil Spill

GUIMARAS Facts
============ ==

• Last August 11, 2006, Solar I tanker chartered by Petron to
transport 2 million liters of oil sank somewhere in Guimaras
Straight.

• The worst oil spill in the country's history damaged:

o 220 kilometers of shoreline
o more than 1000 hectares of mangroves in the area, and
damaging seaweed plantations, coral reefs, marine reserves and rich
fishing grounds. The area is known to be home to the dugong and
Philippine turtles.
o life and livelihood of over 10,000 people in the island
causing the following sickness:
 respiratory diseases
 dermatitis
 vomiting, dizziness and headache

• Leak continues and it will take years to rehabilitate
Guimaras.

Given these, SLB and ADMU Dream Team will conduct relief and clean-
up operations, medical mission in partnership with volunteer
medical staff from St. Luke's, futher social investigations and
advocacies with environmentalists.

Primary targets are heavily affected barangays and areas not
normally reached by relief operations.

Financial assistance is highly encouraged to facilitate purchase of
relief goods from Iloilo. Some funds will also aid the other
programs.

MILENYO VICTIMS
============ ===

Partner communities of the ADMU Office for Social Concern and
Involvement (OSCI) are currently flooded. Some houses were wrecked
and livelihood has become nil for several families. People are
appealing for help in the form of rice, canned goods, noodles and
medicines.

We already advanced badly needed food to Barangays Malaban and
Caingin in cooperation with Kapisanan ng mga Maliliit na Mangingisda
ng Cavite, Laguna at Rizal (CALARIZ).

 

[Jason Ooi]

polluted:shakehead

 

[rhadamantus]

guys, who was able to visit guimaras after the oil spill? how was the diving? is it still worth the visit?

 

[jigo]

there was another oil spill there this week. this time, they suspect a passing super ferry.

 

[jonix]

there was another oil spill there this week. this time, they suspect a passing super ferry.

ouch :shakehead

 

[rhadamantus]

okay, i am going to iloilo/guimaras on 26-29th (26-28-guimaras, 29-iloilo).

anybody wants mangoes?