The people lose every time

Giant corporations put people and the environment at risk. That is perhaps the price we all have pay, but then these behemoths are expected to own up to the responsibility when they foul up in the course of doing business.

Not in this country. On the oil leakage that has plunged Cavite into a state of calamity, the stage is now being set for the exoneration of an as-yet unnamed company. That is the only conclusion we can make from the Coast Guard’s reluctance to identify the culprit.