The Power Sector Assets Liabilities Management (PSALM) awarded a contract for the oil spill cleanup in a Visayas town to a firm that did not have the capability of accomplishing the required work, state auditors said.

Super typhoon Yolanda, which hit Central Visayas in November 2013, damaged PSALM’s Power Barge 103 and swept it aground causing oil to spill on the shoreline of Barangay Botongan at the Estancia Pier and seven other barangays, namely; Zone 1 of Estancia, Sulong, Banban, Alinsulong, Embarcadero, Tanao and Binon-An of Batad.

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