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World’s biggest solar tower plant will power 11,000 homes in Spain
Posted by edurnix on 24 November 2008.
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.
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Illegal timber imports into Europe: what we are doing to stop this trade
Posted by admin on 23 November 2005.
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.
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Broken oil tanker brings ecological disaster
Posted by bex on 19 November 2002.
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.