In February 2015 marks the beginning of Spanish oil company Repsol exploration for gas and oil off the coast of Mijas on Spain’s Costa del Sol. A semi-submersible platform will be located eight kilometers off the beach by the lighthouse Faro de Calaburras in Mijas Costa.
Unless bureaucratic obstacles arise initiates oil company Repsol exploration for gas and oil in February next year. The exploration was approved by the Spanish government in 2004.
A platform will be placed in the sea off the lighthouse Faro de Calaburras or twelve kilometers southwest of Fuengirola. The project then enters into its second phase, the so-called “exploratory drilling”. Test drilling will be done at a depth of 1,600 meters.
“The process of the Costa del Sol is later commented yet on the Canary Islands. We’re talking about a couple of months with the risks this poses to the environment and tourism, “said Librada Moreno member at a civil rights movement against prospecting on the Costa del Sol.
According to an environmental report will not prospecting to disturb marine life or tourism in the area. Therefore, the work will be done from February to April.
Citizens’ movements who oppose the project have recently demanded that the Spanish government is doing seismological studies since the Costa del Sol is a zone of earthquakes.
Tough summer of forest fires waiting Malaga fire brigade
A “tough summer” waiting for the fire brigade in the province of Málaga warned the territorial environment Delegate Javier Carnero. The dry winter combined with the latest forecasts, which speaks of a hot summer makes firefighting Infoca warns of the coming months.
Between January and May this year recorded 23 serious incidents in the province of Malaga when it comes to fires. In the corresponding period last year recorded nine incidents. These 23 incidents so far this year, a third of the 69 incidents were recorded during the whole of last year, property Marbella.
Firefighting in the province of Málaga has this year a budget of 21.6 million Euros. 598 individuals in fire brigade are coordinated by an operational center in the province, and by the fire service centers located in Ronda and Colmenar and the base of Cártama.
In total there are 19 checkpoints. Fire Aviation and helicopters has 34 ponds to collect water from. There are 142 motor vehicles to transport personnel to fire hearths.
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