The Island Commission for Coordination against Oil Prospecting and in favor of Renewable Energies has organized a round table under the title "Black Tides, Clean Energies. The Prestige, a catastrophe foretold? And the Canary Islands?". It will be on Thursday, at 8:00 p.m., at the Sociedad Democracia de Arrecife. Admission is free.
With this round table, the tenth anniversary of one of the biggest ecological catastrophes in the history of Spain will be commemorated and the consequences of the sinking of the oil tanker off the coast of Galicia will be addressed. The Prestige spilled 5,000 to 6,000 tons of fuel, broke in two and sank 250 kilometers from the coast, spilling another 5,000 tons of crude oil.
From then on, an army of more than 65,000 volunteers from all over Spain and Europe joined the Nunca Máis movement and the cleaning tasks in the affected area. Ten years after this tragedy, the round table to be held in Arrecife will feature people who collaborated in the cleaning of the Galician coast.
Thus, the executive director of Greenpeace Spain, Mario Rodríguez, will participate; the veterinarian expert in oiled wildlife, Pascual Calabuig; a member who belonged to the Prestige crisis cabinet and current head of the Cabildo's Office of Global Action against Prospecting, Ezequiel Navío. Domingo Guadalupe will also be present, as a representative of the Lanzarote volunteer movement that attended the cleaning tasks in the affected area.
The round table will be moderated by the journalist Isabel Lusarreta, director of La Voz de Lanzarote. This event will last approximately one hour.