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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10167

25 June 2010
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/energy
Greens want moratorium on offshore drilling

Brussels, 24/06/2010 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday 23 June, the Greens Group at the European Parliament called for a moratorium on new offshore drilling for oil and gas in the North Sea and in European waters. They also urged the EU to consider extending the EU's environmental liability directive to include damage to marine water and to delete the exclusion of liability for oil spill incidents outside European waters. The EU is in no way prepared to tackle the consequences of an oil slick...

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