The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and native shipowners met to debate subjects associated to prevention and response to grease spill incidents.
“The first thing we need to do is change the way people think about disasters because right now people think about response,” stated Environment Secretary Maria Antonia Yulo-Loyzaga in a press assertion posted on May 4, 2023.
“We need to prevent the risk and that needs to be translated in the policies, in the processes, and in the technical capacities of the people that are actually implementing these laws,” she added.
The assembly befell just a few months after the oil spill incident that occurred in Oriental Mindoro involving a sunken motor tanker.
Loyzaga stated there’s a plan to prepare a technical working group that can concentrate on coverage change with emphasis on the prevention of oil spill incidents.
She added that laws associated to such incidents should be reviewed.
Loyzaga stated delivery operators reached out to hunt methods to assist the company to stop and reply to disasters.
“I have discussed with them the importance of identifying the gaps organizationally, functionally, legally, and policy- and practice-wise so that we can prevent another oil spill from happening again,” she stated.
The subjects mentioned throughout the assembly embody the classification of ships and the variety of permits issued for particular functions. The data gathered can be a part of persevering with dialogue with shipowners and anxious companies. — BAP, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
