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 Stories About: Spain AND water pollution
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Wave Hello!
Wave Power Poised to Go Commercial Off Coast of Spain |
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02 Mar 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| Wave Hello! Wave Power Poised to Go Commercial Off Coast of Spain Ocean Power Technologies, a leader in the fledgling wave-power industry, is set to launch a pilot project off the north shore of Spain. Ten power-generating buoys will be placed in the Bay of Biscay, where they will float just below the surface and transform wave energy into mechanical force, which drives a generator that transmits power to shore via underground cables ... |
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| Topics: Spain, water pollution (all these topics) |
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Quantum Leak
Prestige Disaster Likely Worse Than Exxon Valdez Spill, Report Says |
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18 Aug 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Quantum Leak Prestige Disaster Likely Worse Than Exxon Valdez Spill, Report Says The leak from the oil tanker Prestige off the coast of Spain last year probably caused more environmental damage than the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster, according to a new report by a private Spanish economic institute. Some 78,000 metric tons of fuel have been cleansed from beaches since the November sinking, and the Prestige continues ... |
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| Topics: business, oceans, Spain, water pollution (all these topics) |
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Low Prestige
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07 Apr 2003 |
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| Low Prestige More than four months after the Prestige oil tanker sank off the coast of Spain, a new plan is underway for permanently cleaning up what proved to be the worst environmental disaster in the nation's history. About half of the ship's load of 77,000 tons of fuel oil has already leaked out and devastated the local environment; now a Spanish company will attempt to extract and cap ... |
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| Topics: France, placemaking, pollution and waste, Spain, water pollution (all these topics) |
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