Greenpeace raises awareness of oil spills
Greenpeace campaigns against oil spills

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Greenpeace raises awareness of oil spills

13 Aug, 2010

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Environmental group Greenpeace has launched a campaign to raise awareness of the problem of oil spills.

Yesterday (August 12th), the green organisation announced that it sending two ships to oil sites.

It said that its mission is to "confront the kind of reckless oil exploration that keeps wrecking our environment".

The mission Esperanza will encourage organisations to conduct further environmental analysis into the use of fuels and it is intended to encourage "affordable, efficient and renewable energy technologies that are available today".

Greenpeace said that supporters will be allowed to board the ships to join the campaign.

It is likely the group launched the initiative in response to the disaster of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion that occurred in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20th.

Earlier this week, BP, which was operating on the rig at the time, confirmed that it has removed 826,000 barrels of oil since the explosion through containment efforts and more than 411 controlled burns.

Posted by Joseph Hutton 

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