Say "No" and cushion Apulia region, Tremiti Islands, Monopoli and the Gulf of Taranto against the risk of oil spill

The Irish company Petroceltic Elsa made the request for oil exploration off Gargano while targeting the sea off Monopoli is the British Northern Petroleum. ''It is not true that accidents on oil rigs are extremely rare: they are instead very frequent. At least 20 cases have been recorded over the past twenty years - at least one per year - some of which also resulted in casualties,'' said the head of the research department at the Higher Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA), Silvio Greco.'' We must take into account the fact that an accident of the sort that has occurred off the American coastline could also happen to us here in the Mediterranean,'' said Greco. ''It has very little waters replacement and is a closed body of water: it is clear that the impact from an accident like the one that happened in the Gulf of Mexico could be devastating.''

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