Oil spill cleanup to cost RD$2 million

[NewsWhore]

It will cost close to two million pesos to clean up 900 gallons of fuel oil that leaked from a ship belonging to Seaboard Shipping. According to Environment Minister Omar Ramirez, the beach at Andres, Boca Chica was affected by the spill, with wildlife killed, and the cleanup is now under way. According to the minister, the ministry prosecutor's office intends to file a lawsuit for damages against the Seaboard Caribbean, which sails under the South Korean flag and was bound for Philadelphia. Statements from Melvin Flaquer, president of Flaquer Ship Services, indicated that the affected beaches would not be fit for use until next Sunday. Flaquer said that nearly a kilometer of coastline was dirtied by the spill.

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