Endangered Strait: Report of the Fact-Finding Mission on Tañon Strait Oil Exploration

Last Oct. 22-25, various progressive organizations held a fact-finding mission on several coastal communities of Guihulngan City and Vallehermoso in Negros Oriental and San Carlos City and Calatrava in Negros Occidental. The FFM was prompted by the scheduled start, on Nov. 10, of the exploration drilling to an area in the waters off the western coast of Cebu. The exploration drilling was granted by the Environmental Management Bureau of the DENR amid the oppositions of local fisherfolk organizations PAMANA-SUGBO and PAMALAKAYA-Negros and the questions raised by environmentalist groups.

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