2006年07月27日
ENS菲律賓,馬卡提報導;謝芳怡編譯;莫聞審校
Australian Mine Faces Layers of Lawsuits After Third Toxic Spill
Communities from Rapu-Rapu island today filed a petition with the regional court for a permanent injunction to stop the operations of Lafayette Philippines, Inc., an Australian mining firm, amid allegations of a pesticide spill and fish kill in Albay Bay. The spill occurred over the weekend during mining operations on Rapu-Rapu, located in Albay province in the Bicol region, 350 kilometers southeast of the capital Manila.