Blogposts tagged 'Spain'

Notorious Spanish fishing baron brought to justice

Posted by Arianadensham - 4 December 2011 at 10:33am - 0 Comments
Antonio Vidal Pego - boss of the Spanish fishing family operation
by. Credit: Greenpeace
Antonio "Toño" Vidal Pego was the focus of our recent investigations

Finally some good news for our seas.  Toño, the head of the Vidal family network, and focus of our recent investigation in to illegal fishing and subsides in Spain was found guilty of fraud and condemned to one year and eight months in prison.

Article tagged as: benyon, CFP, common fisheries policy, oceans, spain, tuna

Deep sea destruction funded by European taxpayers

Posted by Alicia C - 19 October 2011 at 3:15pm - 0 Comments
All rights reserved. Credit: Kate Davison / Greenpeace
Bycatch on Spanish bottom-trawler in the North Atlantic

In the deep sea northwest of the UK, bottom trawlers are destroying ancient and mostly undiscovered ecosystems. They are part of an unsustainable fishing industry kept afloat by EU taxpayer subsidies.

Article tagged as: CFP, deep sea, europe, fish, overfishing, spain

Exposed: Europe's history of overfishing

Posted by Willie - 4 May 2010 at 6:06pm - 0 Comments

The past few days have seen a couple of pretty important meetings in Spain about the reform of the Common Fisheries Policy (the CFP). You might not have seen much coverage, which isn't that surprising when there's an election going on, nor when you appreciate that very few people know what CFP stands for. Amongst fishy circles, the acronym is often re-interpreted, but I'm too polite to say what the F would stand for.

Article tagged as: callum roberts, CFP, common fisheries policy, europe, marine conservation society, oceans, spain

World’s biggest solar tower plant will power 11,000 homes in Spain

Posted by edurnix - 24 November 2008 at 5:13pm - 2 Comments

Spain has the sunshine and now appears to have the will to use its potential to generate clean energy.

Rising out of the Andalusian countryside like a gigantic obelisk, a huge concrete solar tower is surrounded by fields of more than 1,000 mirrors that are carefully positioned to reflect sunlight in order to superheat water in the tower.

Article tagged as: climate change, concentrated solar power, renewable energy, solar power, spain

Illegal timber imports into Europe: what we are doing to stop this trade

Posted by admin - 23 November 2005 at 9:00am - 0 Comments

Protesters dressed as gorillas blockade a shipload of illegal rainforest timber entering the port of Livorno, Italy

As a major market for tropical hardwood, the European Union plays a key role in the international trade in illegal and destructively sourced timber. Yet, currently no laws in Europe allow authorities to seize shipments of illegally logged timber, nor hold importers and traders of illegal timber accountable. These traders remain free to profit from forest destruction.

Article tagged as: amazon, brazil, cameroon, EU, forests, illegal timber, italy, spain

Broken oil tanker brings ecological disaster

Posted by bex - 19 November 2002 at 9:00am - 0 Comments
Oil spill from Prestige tanker

Oil spill from Prestige tanker

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Oil is now covering more than 500 km of the Spanish Coast, carried by the Gulf Stream. The Spanish Government has conceded that more than 20,000 metric tonnes has leaked from the Prestige. And experts expect the Portugese coast to be affected next...

Action!
As the clean-up operation continues to lack co-ordination, Greenpeace activists protested outside the Galician provincial Government building in La Coruna on Saturday - confronting the Vice President with buckets of oil collected from a nearby beach.

Article tagged as: climate change, oil, protests, spain
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