But i will try to translate some things anyone would.I will add Information by New York Times, and I know that in most countries has different information about (i have translated briefing info from different Newspapers).But before some TRUE things you may don't know.
The goverment does NOTHING about the first 2 weeks, well, missinforming the people. Sailors were who started to clean the coast, they had no materials from administration, they had no help. When volunteers contact with Galician goberment or the Spanish they said that "we don't need help, we don't want volunteers". People who start cleaning coast an sea didn't know that all were cleaning was toxic, they need globes and mask to protect theirselves. Army from Belgium arrived before than Spanish Army to help!! Journalists were expulsed from the catastrophric zone and also when Margot Wallström (European Responsable of Environment), Spanish goberment tried to block the way because she would view the catastrophe with a TV camera. When Portugal shows pictures and said that "Prestige" were spewing more oil, "our COMPETENT" goverment said that they lie. More things are that "our COMPETENT" goverment said to Spain that money help were asked to European Union... few days before, EU says that no one was asked about it!! Las week, friday was a holiday day for a lot of Spanish people, A lot of people went to Galicia to help this 3 holiday days... too many people didn't went because when they phone to Galician Administration/Police to inform where need more help, they said that they have too many volunteers and they weren't needed!! Hopefoul most people that were "informed" (or missinformed by goverment...) goes there to help. Other people that these days had to work or cannot go there, mount an "association" to make money and send there to buy material (goverment give some material, but not enough, and boats repairs,... have to pay them, the fishers, etc...). When weekend finished arrived the some Spanish army. Las week Tv started to say some truth about what was happening, when it really started was Friday, with the firsts groups of volunteers.. until these days, autonomic, private and public Tvs doesn't talk about, (it's said that goverment don't let them to say, specially, the words "OIL SLICK". They may thing that Spanish peopel are enough stupid to belive all they say.
A curious thing is thay a great part of goverment are family of old "goverment" or great sympathizers of FRANCO
Sorry for my bad English speelling (specially in this post), most of things i didn't know how to explain or say, i wish it could be understandable.
And THANKS to all people who think in them and specially to volunteers/helpers who go there and isn't your problem. (Oh I could say that I'm not from Galicia, I'm in the other part of the country, in a town of Mediterranian sea.)
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The New York Times
Thousands Protest Oil Tanker in Spain
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 8:43 p.m. ET
MADRID, Spain (AP) -- Tens of thousands of people gathered in the rain Wednesday in northwestern Spain to protest the government's handling of the Prestige oil tanker disaster.
Some 150,000 people took part in the biggest demonstration in the fishing port of Vigo, calling for resignations in the regional and central governments and demanding laws to ensure such a spill never happens again.
Earlier Wednesday the government acknowledged problems in its handling of the spill, which occurred when the Prestige broke apart and sank on Nov. 19, spilling about 5 million gallons of oil, which has fouled miles of coastline in a region heavily dependent on fishing.
About 15 million more gallons of oil, still in the Prestige when it sunk to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, is continuing to leak, experts say.
As hundreds of volunteers cleaned beaches, Deputy Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said a shift in wind direction has made it inevitable that another wave of slicks will hit the northwestern Galician coastline shortly, further threatening one of the world's richest shellfish zones.
Rajoy said big slicks have broken into smaller ones, making it very difficult for an international flotilla of anti-pollution boats to remove them.
The 26-year-old, single-hulled Prestige sank six days after it ruptured in a storm and started leaking.
Rajoy appealed for help with the removal of oil from the surface of the sea. ``It's not possible for the big boats to pick up all this oil. We need all the available fishing boats as soon as possible to fight the spill,'' he said.
A Spanish scientific commission said on Tuesday that the Prestige is spewing 33,000 gallons a day and could continue to do so until March of 2006. The tanker is leaking oil from 14 cracks, nine in the bow and five in the stern.
Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar said the spill is the country's worst ecological catastrophe. Spain had previously said the oil in the tanker would solidify because of the near-freezing temperatures on the sea floor, some 2 miles below the surface.
