The vessel M/T Solar I which was hired by Petron Corporation sank southwest of Guimaras Strait on August 11, 2006. The sunken oil tanker was carrying millions of liters of oil. As I am always checking SwissPinoy.com, I saw that HCR Pinoys updated its blog, HCR Pinoys ask Staff Council to help in Oil Spill. There I saw a link to a video at YouTube. I checked it out and found more interesting videos about the Petron Solar I Guimaras Oil Spill.
I just got some good news. Bugang was nominated as one of the Philippines’ 9 Best New Tourist Destinations. So I updated Pandan.gov.ph right away, the Official Website of the Municipality of Pandan, Antique, Philippines. This article can be redistributed so I just copied and pasted parts of the article here. I will post this too at Friendster, Hi5, Yahoo Groups, among others.
Bugang, Hiyas ng Turismo 2006 Finalist
Bugang, One of the Philippines’ 9 Best New Tourist Destinations
March 09, 2006 - Bugang River of Pandan, Antique in Panay Island of the Visayas Region (Region VI) is one of the nine (9) finalists in a nationwide search for new and undiscovered tourist destinations dubbed as “Hiyas ng Turismo 2006″.
The search for the country’s best new destination was launched last year by the Women in Travel Manila and the Philippines’ Department of Tourism (DOT).
You can help Bugang River to win “Hiyas ng Turismo 2006″ and become the Philippines’ best new tourist destination by sending your votes. To vote, just text: HIYAS(space)VOTE(space)BUGANG and send it to 2308 for Globe, 2951 for Smart and 2315 for Sun Cellular subscribers. Voting period is until March 16, 2006.
Text votes will comprise 30 percent of the total score and the remaining 70 percent will be coming from the national judges. Final judging will be on March 17, 2006 at 3 o’clock in the afternoon at the the Department of Tourism Auditorium. Awarding ceremony will be on March 28, 2006 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Pasay City, Philipines.
Read more at the Official Website of the Municipality of Pandan, Antique, Philippines
dated March 09, 2006, Thursday
URL: http://www.pandan.gov.ph/news/flash/2006_03_09march2006.html
Several days ago, I updated the site of Pandan.ph Portal linking some news about the oil spill in Semirara. As it was an update to the site, I wrote it in my sehdi.com blog. But as I see it now, reading my comments about the diesel and coal power plants, I should have written it here, in my personal blog coz it was after all my personal comments to the issue.
Well, since I already wrote it there, I think you just have to read it there, entitled Semirara Oil Spill. I’ve written what I’ve wanted to say, so I don’t have to reiterate them here.
I just hope that you will see the importance of this issue. I hope that you will realize the impacts of what happened especially to the environment and those people who were affected. This is not only about Semirara, Antique, but about the Philippines in general. The fact is, it is a global issue.
