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It’s the end of an oil era.
“The country’s three largest oil companies will finish removing their equipment from the 33-hectare oil depot in Pandacan, Manila in November this year, as ordered by the Supreme Court,” reports Jose Rodel Clapano in The Philippine Star.
The report noted: “Manila Mayor Joseph ‘Erap’ Estrada told Petron Corp. chairman and chief executive officer Ramon Ang, Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corp. president Edgar Chua, and Chevron Philippines, Inc. country chairman and international products general manager Peter Morris that the city government will provide the support that the three oil companies will need to develop the depot for commercial and residential purposes ‘in accordance with the city land use plan.'”
The Pandacan Oil Depot, which was set up ,in 1914, has long been controversial, as residents in the area feared the possible environmental and health hazard that it posed.
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