[environment] the petron disaster

I've just been e-mailed by one of the readers with the question, 'Who is Petron Corp?'

A fair question because this disaster is most definitely a sleeper - front page in all the oil rags but virtually zilch in the mainstream media. And this says everything about the western media.

There are two posts about them and their motto is 'We fuel success.' Unfortunately I lost the first post which was posted on this site on Friday, August 18th but you'll find it here.

Here was the gist:

So far, only one of the Solar 1’s 10 containers has ruptured in the sinking in the Panay Gulf, off Guimaris but this alone has spilt more than 50,000 gallons of oil into the sea.The slick now stretches across 13 nautical miles of water polluting 1,100 hectares of mangrove and 26 hectares in the Taclong Island Marine Reserve, as well as seaweed plantations and coral reefs containing popular dive sites. The damaged areas are not merely where townsfolk get their source of livelihood; these are protected areas which took years to develop and will again take many years to revive.