Authorities in the Philippines are working to contain the oil spill from a ship which capsized just off the coast of the capital, manila. The tanker carrying 1.4 million litres of industrial fuel sank in the rough seas whipped up by typhoon Gaemi. The Philippines coast guard rescued sixteen of the seventeen crew members onboard the 'Terra Nova'. Greenpeace has warned the spill will have a huge impact on local fishing grounds.
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00:00The scary thing with oil spills like this is that you will only see the impacts years
00:08from now, and this will invariably affect not only the marine life, but also the livelihoods
00:14where a lot of these areas are rich fishing grounds for our communities in Bataan.
00:21So it really needs to be urgent with the response of the Coast Guard and the authorities.