Environment
Balearic pressure on Madrid to stop oil prospecting
The Balearic Environment Commission is once more applying pressure to have oil prospecting stopped. At a meeting on 30 November, its president, Antoni Alorda, will present a demand to the national environment ministry that it halts the process from 2011 whereby Schlumberger can conduct surveys in the Gulf of Lion between Catalonia and the Balearics. Alorda will also request a meeting with Guillermina Yanguas, the director-general of environmental quality and evaluation. The Balearic commission is, therefore, adding to the request by the Alianza Mar Blava that the process be archived (stopped, in other words).
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If you want the lights to stay on then you must extract the oil and gas from under the sea. It can be done with minimal environmental and visual impact. It's not going to happen on the beach, nor in sight of it.
I still fail to understand why the Balearic residents are objecting to oil prospecting. The revenue alone, along with increased jobs and prosperity, are NOT WANTED !!!. In today's modern prospecting technology, there is no effect on the sea, fish and the areas where oil is extracted. Perhaps it is a lack of knowledge that is causing a misguided protest.