THE marine environmental organisation Oceana yesterday demanded that the European Directive be strictly applied against the dumping of oil at sea as has been seen last week in the Port of Palma. The European director of Oceana, Xavier Pastor, demanded that an exhaustive investigation be launched to determine without a shadow of a doubt the origin, causes, and those responsible for the dumping, so that the law can be applied rigorously. Oceana started a pressure campaign to get this European legislation, which criminalises these situations, approved, once their investigations led them to discover that oil dumped, from the cleaning out of tanks or leaking from them due either to negligence or insufficient maintenance on the boats, represents 75 percent of the oil dumped in the sea worldwide. According to this organisation, serious accidents like the sinking of the Prestige, the Erika, or the Exxon Valdez, in spite of their high profile, are only responsible for a quarter of the oil contaminating the oceans. The routine dumping of oil, which is causing a chronic pollution of the seas is due, basically, to many ships and boats. However, they said, this routine dumping doesn't receive the attention of the media. Oceana said that the European Directive establishes that illegal dumping of oil at sea is a criminal offence.
Action demanded on dumping of oil
28/05/2013 00:00
Also in News
- Emergency declared on Ryanair flight bound for Palma from Dublin
- Mallorca ambassador Sir Bradley Wiggins has “lost” his Mallorca home
- Mallorca restaurants losing clients, tourists tighten their belts
- Mallorca hotelier - "I wouldn't go to a place where I perceived there to be animosity towards tourists"
- Mallorca needs to remember price is king
No comments
To be able to write a comment, you have to be registered and logged in
Currently there are no comments.