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- From: Greenpeace via Jym Dyer <jym@mica.berkeley.edu>
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- Subject: NEWS: Call for Tanker Exclusion Zones and Halt to Drilling Licenses
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- Date: 25 Jan 1993 04:41:28 GMT
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- [Greenpeace Press Release from Greenbase -- Redistribute Freely]
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- GREENPEACE CALLS FOR EXCLUSION ZONES FOR TANKERS AND HALT TO
- LICENCES FOR OIL DRILLING PENDING INQUIRY INTO TANKER DISASTER
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- SCOTLAND -- January 11, 1993 (GP) -- Greenpeace today called for
- emergency Government action to bar the oil industry from routing
- tankers through coastal narrows and exploring for oil off
- environmentally sensitive coasts.
-
- As a first step, Greenpeace identified as tanker-free exclusion
- zones the Minches, between the Western Isles and the Scottish
- mainland, and the stretch between Scotland, the Orkney and
- Shetland Islands, where the Braer tanker was wrecked last week.
- In addition to tanker traffic, Greenpeace calls for a halt
- to the granting of new licences for oil exploration -- the
- Government is currently considering 435 sites, many of them
- close to important wildlife areas.
-
- "The Government must not wait for the outcome of the Public
- Inquiry, which could take years -- emergency measures must be
- taken now to halt oil exploration and ban tankers from coastal
- narrows" said Paul Horsman, Greenpeace Oil Campaigner.
-
- Irish Sea areas rich in seals, dolphins, birds and other marine
- life, including Bardsey and Skomer Islands, and Lundy Island
- in the Bristol Channel, are all threatened with coastal oil
- development. Other sites include the Firth of Forth, the Wash
- and North Norfolk Coast, Dorset Heritage Coastline, and
- Flamborough Head, which has important bird colonies.
-
- As well as the disturbance of drilling, oil development in any
- of these sites will increase tanker traffic around the British
- coastline.
-
- This afternoon in the House of Commons the Transport Minister
- John MacGregor, announced that there will be a Public Inquiry
- into the Braer oil tanker disaster.
-