Hundreds expected in Lisbon against Algarve oil drilling

The Algarve Surf and Marine Activities Association says it expects at least five hundred people to travel to Lisbon today to protest outside Parliament against oil prospection on the Algarve’s west coast.

in News · 23 Feb 2017, 08:36 · 3 Comments

The association says four bus loads of protestors from the Alentejo and the Algarve will be gathering for a protest outside Parliament which has been set for 1pm.

Organisers of the demonstration say it is also to voice their disapproval against a series of irregularities in the licensing of the project led by the ENI-Galp consortium.

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Comments

hypocrites who get on a fossil fuelled bus to protest against fossil fuels - if they were true believers they would cycle

By DAVID JENKINS from Lisbon on 23 Feb 2017, 11:34

The Portuguese tax payers should make a movement to demand Algarve oil drilling!

By Joao from Lisbon on 23 Feb 2017, 16:14

Bicycles are made of and with fossil fuels, too, David. So are protest signs, petitions and leaflet paper products. By the standard you propose, there is NO legitimate way of protest - about any problem created by fossil-fuel abuse. Your response is a meme very common to people that are only comfortable in a world where obedience to power is the reigning dynamic.

By Mary Jo Long from Lisbon on 24 Feb 2017, 04:37