Environmental groups demanding an end to fossil energy investments

A group of activists with white masks and charcoal-stained today protested to the Ministry of Finance to demand an end to World Bank investments made in renewable energies with the support of the Spanish Government and the end to fossil energy.

Organizations, Ecologists in Action, InspirAction and Friends of the Earth have expressed their displeasure against the Minister of Economy and Finance, Elena Salgado, "for contributing to the financing of fossil fuels in poor countries by 116% over the previous year ".

Under the slogan "World Bank climate criminal, accomplice Spanish government" and a basket full of coal and deposited outside the Ministry, environmentalists have moved to the head of the Environment his concern for the future implementation of the new energy strategy World Bank from 2011 and the ecology.

Financing of fossil energy and the ecology

In a statement read during the ceremony, the group's spokesperson InspirAction, Isabel Ortigosa, explained that the World Bank's energy policy "is to finance private sector projects to large scale fossil fuels, an approach that has clearly failed to to provide energy for impoverished communities. ".

The head of Ecologists in Action Tom Kucharz criticized in recent years, "World Bank financing for coal power plants has increased by 40", to a record 3,300 million euros in 2010.

The ecology and the end to fossil energy

Also, the spokesman for Friends of the Earth, Alejandro González, has warned about the "inconvenience" to stand by while the World Bank borrows the South, making it totally dependent on fossil fuels in coming decades and the fossil energy.

Protests like these will be carried out throughout the day in various parts of the world as Zagreb, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Johannesburg, Washington or London.

The 5 worst environmental disasters in the Worls

Mexico and other countries have confronted environmental disaster caused by the oil spill, the explosion of nuclear plants and disposal of chemical materials.

The 5 worst environmental disasters in the Worls

Persian Gulf, 1991: The war between Iraq and the United States caused a major ecological disaster of the twentieth century due to burning oil wells causing black rain that destroyed vegetation and polluted water by the oil spill.

Ukraine, 1986: The explosion in a reactor of a nuclear plant resulted in a radioactive cloud over the Soviet Union and eastern Europe. Radiation finished with four square kilometers of vegetation and life of the Pripyat river.

India, 1984: A leak of 42 tons of methyl isocyanate that became toxic gases caused one of the worst disasters in memory. About 20 thousand people and thousands of head of livestock and pets died from inhaling the pollutants.

Mexico, 1979: The oil well Ixtoc I, belonging to Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), is out of control and exploded causing a spill of 560 million gallons of oil into the Bay of Campeche, Ciudad del Carmen in the Gulf of Mexico.

Italy, 1976: An explosion at a manufacturer of perfumes and cosmetics, instantly killing 193 people and air pollution in 11 communities around the cloud of dioxin that is presented and the ecological disaster.

Japan stopped whaling in Antarctica by environmentalists

Japan has temporarily suspended its annual whale hunt in Antarctic waters because of the harassment of environmental organizations who rely on this controversial practice is now closer to an end.
A spokesman for Japan's Fisheries Agency announced Wednesday that the Nisshin Maru whaling ship crippled their catches on 10 for safety, to the aggressive practices of the conservation group Sea Shepherd, and evaluate what decision to make now and Japan stopped whaling..
The environmental organization Greenpeace was assumed that the return will be decided ahead of Japan's whaling, which processes the catches of three other boats with a total crew of 180 men, fishing with spears to the huge cetaceans.

Japan stopped whaling

The Japanese whaling season, which was to last until March, was suspended when the Nisshin Maru was in an area near Chilean territorial waters, according to the local agency Kyodo and Japan stopped whaling.
Whaling has been reported to Tokyo constant criticism throughout the world and even a complaint from Australia to the International Criminal Court in The Hague to hide, under assumptions scientific, purely commercial motivations and Japan stopped whaling..

In recent years, catches of the Nisshin Maru have been complicated by the sabotage of American Sea Shepherd in the cold Antarctic waters, with practices such as collision, release of corrosive acids or chains of the whaling activists, which have caused irritation in Japan .

Hunting whale

Japan, Iceland and Norway are the only countries that continue whaling, a practice that Tokyo is defended as an ancient cultural tradition, born on the coast of Taiji, Wakayama, who also holds a controversial hunting of dolphins and Japan stopped whaling..
The spokesman Minister of Japan, Yukio Edan, today deplored the stonewalling against the issuing "scientific" and said Japan will ask other nations to take action against him.