Pamalakaya demands immediate subsidy to ethanol spill-affected fisherfolk
The progressive federation of fisherfolk made the appeal as the Environment Management Bureau-Negros Island Region (EMB-NIR) reported that the effects of the waste spill widened from 3,000 hectares from an initial estimate of 400 hectares.
Ethanol spill threatens livelihood, dolphins on Tañon Strait, group warns
An environmental group warned of grave impacts on the livelihood of local fisherfolk and on a local population of rare dolphins after a wastewater spill from an ethanol plant in Bais City, Negros Oriental.