It’s ironic that we have zero cleanup equipment in the entire country. While it takes months for them to argue about leaking/not leaking, your fault/my fault in the end they will just say it wasn’t anyones fault and we have to study how to be better prepared for this in the future.

The best campaign I believe is to show in timeline the obvious resistance to acknowledging the problem and manuevering, plus how ill treated the coastal folk were and how ill prepared the government was.

People have to stop using petron, thats the only way that anyone will even let it register. It doen’t matter how relevant the argument is at this point, merely that enough fear can be instilled into the corporate mindset to avois a drop in sales for their brands. Also if there were a negative customer feedback other brands might take advantage to pose as friendlier companies but might add to the pressure level for standards inadvertently.

But the real problem is, do filipinos even care? I talked to about 64 people in the last 2 weeks of all different backgrounds, mostly middle to epper. The only people who talked about the spill even in passing were bankers. Bankers because they have holdings in tourist chains and resorts and are scared that the investment they made could just get washed away in crude one day.

-Paolo Bernas