Oil Spill Case Study

Oil spill is one of the major problem in Batangas bay area. There’s a lot of instances that oil spilled happened in to different part of its bay. Just like what happened on the shore of Talibuyog Village, Calatagan Batangas. It was clearly said in the news that the oil spill in that area affected nearly 960 square meters of mangroves forest. That’s the reason why the villagers as well as the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) Headed by Lt. Cdr. Troy Cornellio Created a Oil Spill Response Team (OSRT) for them to able to contain spill using sorbent pad to absorb the sticky oil when the high tide comes. The Oil Spill Response Team (OSRT)

The term is typically given to marine oil slicks, where oil is discharged into the sea or beach front waters, however spills may likewise happen ashore. Oil slicks might be because of arrivals of raw petroleum from tankers, seaward stages, penetrating apparatuses and wells, and also spills of refined oil based goods, (for example, gas, diesel) and their side-effects, heavier energizes utilized by huge ships, for example, fortification fuel, or the spill of any sleek reject or waste oil.

These particulates will penetrated lungs and carry out toxic chemicals into a human body, it will also create air pollutant to like nitric oxides and ozone’s from ships. It is clearly the reason, why the villagers who are living nearly the seashores where the oil spill happened felt difficulty on breathing, This statements of villagers are based on ABS-CBN news. To prevent further damage the Coast Guard have conducted a high pressure flushing using salt waters, Boasted by the sets of Generators and a mechanical high pressure sprayers and a pair of electrical sprayer to make clean-up he spill as fast as they