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| WORKERS hired by NAPOCOR to clean up the oil debris in Brgy. Botongon, Estancia wear masks due to the offensive odor emanating from the spill area. (Jonathan Jurilla/Typhoon Yolanda Story Hub Visayas) Click here for the original image. |
ESTANCIA, Iloilo – The oil spill from a power barge damaged at the height of Typhoon Yolanda has raised the poison levels in the air of Brgy. Botongon.
Enrique T. Ona, secretary of the Department of Health (DOH), said that air pollution levels in the village has reached 16.9 parts per million which is already considered critical. Read the rest of the story here.
Oil Spill Eater II was successfully demonstrated by cleaning up a small section of beach on the Estancia oil spill in the Philippines on March 5, 2014. The Mayor of Estancia, as well as other officials stood by and viewed OSE II being applied to rocks and shoreline where there were thick gobs of oil. Within minutes the oil started breaking down and lifting off the rocks, and as the tide came in the oil was completely removed from the rocks and shoreline. Some of the rocks remained discolored, however when the rocks were touched or rubbed there was no oil left the surfaces were no slip, and the oil had been removed. The mayor immediately called the Governor, to get OSE II utilized for the Estancia spill, since it remains a toxic mess. OSE II is a first response oil spill clean up product that is safe for responders/humans, a proven non toxic product for marine species, that actually permanently removes a spill from the environment by converting it to a safe end point of CO2 and water, with no secondary clean up or haul off needed. OSE II has cleaned up over 27000 spills since 1989.
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