Action against Prestige Oil Spill in Galicia

About two hundred thousand people are demonstrating in Santiago de Compostela against the Government's failure to deal with the black tide produced by the sinking of the Prestige.

Unique identifier: GP01CHN

Type: Image

Shoot date: 28/11/2002

Locations: Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Western Europe

Credit line: © Greenpeace / Pedro Armestre

Ranking: ★★★★ (E)

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Prestige Sinking Oil Spill in Galicia

The Prestige oil spill off the coast of Galicia was caused by the sinking of an oil tanker in 2002. The spill polluted thousands of kilometers of coastline and more than one thousand beaches on the Spanish, French and Portuguese coast, as well as causing great harm to the local fishing industry. The spill is the largest environmental disaster of both Spain's history and Portugal's history. The Prestige was a Greek-operated, single-hulled oil tanker, officially registered in the Bahamas, but with a Liberian-registered single-purpose corporation as the owner.

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