- Title: Environmentalists protest against extraction project in the Argentine Sea
- Date: 17th July 2021
- Summary: BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA (JULY 16, 2021) (REUTERS) ECOLOGIST PROTESTERS MARCHING WITH SIGNS TOWARDS THE MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT SIGN READING (Spanish): "No to oil companies in the sea" PROTESTERS CARRYING SIGNS PROTESTERS WITH THEIR HANDS PAINTED BLACK REPRESENTING OIL CLOSE OF BLUE SMOKE BOMB PROTESTERS WALKING OUTSIDE CASA ROSADA GOVERNMENT PALACE PROTESTERS HOLDING BLUE FABRIC REPRESENTING THE SEA VARIOUS OF PROTESTER WITH HANDS PAINTED BLACK VARIOUS OF THE PROTEST (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) PROTESTER, FEDERICO WINOKUR, SAYING: "Today we are mobilizing because they are moving forward with an oil project to make a seismic exploration in the Argentinean Sea and install platforms to extract oil, which according to studies by the National University of Central Buenos Aires, they have a spillage risk of 100%. We are against prioritizing the earnings of companies such as Equinor, a Norwegian multinational company, over our future." PROTEST ENTRANCE OF THE MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS PASTING PAPER SIGNS WITH PICTURES OF ANIMALS AND CHILDREN, READING (Spanish): "My life matters. Sea free of oil companies" PROTESTERS PLAYING MUSIC VARIOUS PROTESTERS COVERED IN BLACK PAINT REPRESENTING OIL (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) LEADER OF AMBIENTE EN LUCHA ORGANIZATION, PILAR BARBAS SAYING: "We think that the cost of extractivism and environmental destruction that is taking place is terrible. What they are looking for is to continue this project for us to eight years, see if they can extract oil, which is very serious because they still pollute. Some weeks ago, there were oil explosions in Mexico, in Rumania and we believe that, taking into consideration what is happening in the world, we do not want oil companies of those characteristics to install themselves in the Argentinean sea. It would not only be serious now, but also in the future." VARIOUS OF ACTIVISTS DOING AN ART PERFORMANCE IN PLAZA DE MAYO
- Embargoed: 31st July 2021 02:36
- Keywords: Equinor oil oil companies
- Location: BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA
- City: BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA
- Country: Argentina
- Topics: Pollution,Environment,South America / Central America
- Reuters ID: LVA001EM3DE87
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Protesters and ecologic organizations protested against a seismic exploration and oil project in Buenos Aires on Friday (July 16).
Ecologists claim they are worried this project might pollute the Argentinean sea and affect the marine life.
"We are against prioritizing the earnings of companies such as Equinor, a Norwegian multinational company over our future", said protester Federico Winkour.
During the term of former President Mauricio Macri, the government started handing permissions to companies so they could operate in the Argentinean sea and search for oil and gas until the year 2025.
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