{"id":2027,"date":"2014-11-25T07:04:44","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T12:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2027"},"modified":"2014-11-25T07:04:44","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T12:04:44","slug":"canaries-not-for-sale-islanders-protest-oil-drilling-video-rt-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2027","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Canaries not for sale!\u2019 Islanders protest oil drilling (VIDEO) \u2014 RT News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/208391-canary-oil-drilling-repsol-protest\/\">\u2018Canaries not for sale!\u2019 Islanders protest oil drilling (VIDEO) \u2014 RT News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px;\">Hundreds of people have protested against oil drilling by Spanish oil giant Repsol, in Spain\u2019s Canary Islands. The islanders\u2019 protest follows previous Greenpeace\u2019s actions stopped by the Spanish Navy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: baseline; background-color: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">Protesters gathered in front of Gran Canaria&#8217;s government delegation building waving banners and chanting\u00a0<em style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">&#8220;Canaries, not for sale&#8221;<\/em>. They are opposed to exploratory drilling on an oil platform around 50 km off the island&#8217;s coast. An organizer from &#8216;Coordinate Canaria Against Surveys&#8217; said that despite drilling having begun, protesters would\u00a0<em style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">&#8220;continue to fight.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px;\">Simultaneous protests also took place across the Canary Islands, coinciding with a public ballot over the issue, which Spanish Industry Minister Jose Manuel Soria has defended.<\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Canaries not for sale!\u2019 Islanders protest oil drilling (VIDEO) \u2014 RT News. Hundreds of people have protested against oil drilling by Spanish oil giant Repsol, in Spain\u2019s Canary Islands. The islanders\u2019 protest follows previous Greenpeace\u2019s actions stopped by the Spanish Navy. Protesters gathered in front of Gran Canaria&#8217;s government delegation building waving banners and chanting\u00a0&#8220;Canaries, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,6],"tags":[1417,1419,387,1418],"class_list":["post-2027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","category-liberty","tag-canary-islands","tag-drilling","tag-greenpeace","tag-repsol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2028,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027\/revisions\/2028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}