Archive for the ‘Compensation’ Category
Friday, April 17th, 2009
ILOILO CITY – Guimaras fishermen will benefit from some P2.4 million in grants that the US government was giving to those who had lost their livelihood as a result of an oil spill in 2006.
Citi Foundation and Petron Foundation will finance the second phase of a mariculture livelihood program for ...
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
TWO years after a massive oil spill hit this island-province, officials and experts said the island is showing recovery and coping from the impact of the calamity.
But rehabilitation efforts have been stalled by the non-release of around P150 million intended for development programs.
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
THE Commission on Audit (COA) in a verification made on last year's financial transactions of the Iloilo Provincial Government affirmed questionable handling of the Tupas administration on the P10 million Presidential calamity fund.
With six of the fifteen "significant findings" dedicated to the Capitol aid of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, government auditors ...
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Saturday, April 5th, 2008
THIRTY SIX residents of the municipality of Miagao in Iloilo were recipients of the oil spill compensation fund recently released by the International Oil Pollution Compensation Fund 1992 relative to the Solar 1 Oil Spill incident in August 2006.
After rigid verification of their application, the second batch of claimants received to ...
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Sunday, March 2nd, 2008
RESORT OWNERS in Guimaras remain optimistic that they would recover from the business slumped as an effect of the MT Solar I oil spill that hit the province in 2006.
Elena Jison-Golez, Guimaras Resorts Association (GRA) president, said they could entice again tourists to visit and experience what the province could offer ...
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Thursday, January 17th, 2008
PARIS, France -- A French court Wednesday found Total guilty of negligence and ordered the oil giant and three other parties to pay nearly 200 million euros in damages for the 1999 Erika oil spill, one of France's worst environmental disasters.
Establishing a legal precedent, the judge ruled that some of the ...
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
THE PROVINCIAL government of Guimaras is not giving up on its move to ask the London-based International Oil Pollution Compensation Fund (IOPCF) to pay the compensation claims of fishpond operators and seaweed growers in the province.
Rep. JC Rahman Nava, in an interview last week, said they are exhausting all the ...
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Sunday, October 21st, 2007
A NATIONWIDE alliance of fisherfolk organizations has urged around 133,000 oil spill compensation claimants, whose claims were rejected by a London-based insurance organization, to file claims against the giant oil firm Petron Corp.
The Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya, National Movement of Fishers in the Philippines) said the oil ...
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Sunday, October 7th, 2007
THE INTERNATIONAL organization that provides compensation to oil spill victims has rejected the claims for damages of nearly 133,000 residents of Guimaras and Iloilo in relation to the 2006 oil spill in Guimaras.
The rejected claims included 125,480 in Guimaras and 7,416 in Iloilo, stated a Sept. 24, 2007 report of the ...
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Saturday, September 15th, 2007
AFTER paying Petron Corp. for the money it spent cleaning up the oil spill near Guimaras Island last year, the International Oil Pollution Compensation Fund (IOPCF) rejected claims for the Philippine government’s “cash-for-work” program. The same fund also asked the Coast Guard to explain why its claim is bigger than ...
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