Por último agradecer a al Ateneo Bahia del Campo de Gibraltar su colaboración en hacer posible este proyecto en La Línea y dar visibilidad a esta frágil ave en peligro de extinción y a la Unión Cultural por ofrecernos su histórica sede para la exposición .
PROTEST ACTION AT A CEPSA REFINERY : ACTIVISTS CALL FOR THE ABANDON- MENT OF PALM OIL FOR BIOFUELS
Activists from Verdemar Ecologistas en Acción have unfurled a banner on the dock of the CEPSA refinery in the Bay of Algeciras , calling for the cessation of the use of palm oil in its refinery for the manufacture of biofuels .
The sailing boat Diosa Maat of Ecologistas en Acción has traveled around the port of the CEPSA refinery carrying a banner with the slogan " If it is palm oil , it is not bio ". They denounce that biodiesel made from palm oil is causing the deforestation of numerous tropical forests and , consequently , the disappearance of the orangutan and other species of
flora and fauna in these areas . Agribusiness - mainly soy , livestock and palm oil - is responsible for more than 80 % of tropical deforestation in the world .
According to the environmentalist organization warns , in the period 2017-2019 , CEPSA ' s biodiesel plant in San Roque ( Cadiz ) has consumed more than 250,000 Ton of palm vegetable oil and more than 100,000 Ton of soy vegetable oil .
Antonio Muñoz Secilla , member of Ecologists in Action , affirms that " in spite of all the scientific evidence , oil companies such as CEPSA continue to import large quantities of palm oil for the manufacture of fuels that they paint as green , without taking into account their serious environmental and social impacts ".
Marta García Pallarés , coordinator of the biofuels campaign of Ecologistas en Acción , concludes : " With actions like today ' s we want to inform citizens of the dark reality behind fuels that are sold to us as clean . We also want to encourage them to support our demand to the Government for Spain to join the countries that have already decreed the abandonment of biofuels based on palm and soy . Spain has the opportunity to take a step forward by announcing
16 OTWO 48 / JULY 2023