Imperial Palace dumping sewage in sea! MUST BE STOPPED

[zak-hunter]

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dapat pangitaan na ug way ilang dumping sewage....it can damage mother earth.

[Tarmac]

So... what's the latest ani? Imperial removed the pipes that dumped sewage into the sea, and the water is clean once again. But were they ever penalized? Were they ever held accountable for dumping sewage in the first place? And where is their sewage going now?

Mind you, this was not a leak in the sewage system! They have been dumping sewage into the sea for months, probably since they opened. People in the diving community have known about the hotel's sewage problem since at least May 2010 when a group saw the pipe spewing icky yellow stuff underwater. When the divers surfaced, the water smelled bad and a few days later one of them came down with an ear infection. Some of the divers brought it up with authorities but nobody ever acted on it. Now thanks to social networking ang baho sa Imperial na kalkal na gyud. But nobody was ever penalized for it. Mura lang ug business as usual gihapon, as if it never happened. It doesn't help that the hotel's PR firm is media savvy (and media connected) and always manage to put a positive spin to their kapalpakan.

[yiox]

This must be condemned

[M@rv|n]

asa naman ilang sewage padulong kng na remove na ang pipes?
may unta follow ni permi sa media

[sharkey360]

So... what's the latest ani? Imperial removed the pipes that dumped sewage into the sea, and the water is clean once again. But were they ever penalized? Were they ever held accountable for dumping sewage in the first place? And where is their sewage going now?

Mind you, this was not a leak in the sewage system! They have been dumping sewage into the sea for months, probably since they opened. People in the diving community have known about the hotel's sewage problem since at least May 2010 when a group saw the pipe spewing icky yellow stuff underwater. When the divers surfaced, the water smelled bad and a few days later one of them came down with an ear infection. Some of the divers brought it up with authorities but nobody ever acted on it. Now thanks to social networking ang baho sa Imperial na kalkal na gyud. But nobody was ever penalized for it. Mura lang ug business as usual gihapon, as if it never happened. It doesn't help that the hotel's PR firm is media savvy (and media connected) and always manage to put a positive spin to their kapalpakan.

Getting louder.

"Ban! Ban!! BAN!!"

"Ban Imperial Palace! Send them away!"

Those were the shouting from my very concerned friends and neighbors. Some of them even never visited Imperial Palace.

The funny thing? A decade ago, they wished that foreign investors would come to Mactan island and set up a world-class resort...and then came the Imperial Palace which they welcomed warmly. They believe that with world-class resorts, Cebu alone will be able to attract foreign 5,000,000 tourists per year starting 2015.

And now they want to drive Imperial Palace away with such powerful emotions.

Let's see how the rest of the public will react.

[Andy99]

So... what's the latest ani? Imperial removed the pipes that dumped sewage into the sea, and the water is clean once again. But were they ever penalized? Were they ever held accountable for dumping sewage in the first place? And where is their sewage going now?

Mind you, this was not a leak in the sewage system! They have been dumping sewage into the sea for months, probably since they opened. People in the diving community have known about the hotel's sewage problem since at least May 2010 when a group saw the pipe spewing icky yellow stuff underwater. When the divers surfaced, the water smelled bad and a few days later one of them came down with an ear infection. Some of the divers brought it up with authorities but nobody ever acted on it. Now thanks to social networking ang baho sa Imperial na kalkal na gyud. But nobody was ever penalized for it. Mura lang ug business as usual gihapon, as if it never happened. It doesn't help that the hotel's PR firm is media savvy (and media connected) and always manage to put a positive spin to their kapalpakan.

i agree with you.

This was no leak. The pipe was laid into the sea and just ended a few meters from the beach in the hope that nobody will notice what they are doing.

[Tarmac]

i agree with you.

This was no leak. The pipe was laid into the sea and just ended a few meters from the beach in the hope that nobody will notice what they are doing.

That pipe would've been fine if their sewage treatment plant were working properly. Then they would've dumped nothing more than treated water. But the plant either wasn't working properly or couldn't keep up with the hotel's actual sewage output. One should look at the sewage treatment facilities Imperial said they would build vs. what they actually built.

Isn't it funny how eager the DENR was to sweep this under the rug? Too eager, methinks. Ordinarily, you get caught dumping trash where you shouldn't and you're supposed to be fined hundreds, even thousands of pesos, and get imprisoned to boot. Yet Imperial Palace was channeling shit--yes, shit--shit from hundreds of rooms and from thousands of people at a time and they got nothing more than a slap on the wrist. Go figure.

The resort had the gall to insult our intelligence by: a) Blaming the province's chronic power shortage; b) blaming the pumpboat operators and c) pointing the finger at Lapu-Lapu's inadequate sewage treatment facilities.

And of course, the DENR, that most corrupt of corrupt government agencies, allowed all this to happen in the first place. We shouldn't wonder why they're eager to make this all go away.

[sharkey360]

Tourism means so much to us Filipinos, and it also means big money and more jobs. I'm sure that a tourism spot like Imperial Palace will remind local authorities about that. It's like saying "Hey, you guys punish us, we will close down, layoff everyone and leave your country. You will have lesser tourists too without us."

[Rioko]

tsk3.. na unsa naman ning imperial. i had my practicum der ra ba.

[Dj364]

kadungog pd ko ani nga balita...