Madrid, 27 feb ( EFE).- ecologist associations and civilians they delivered today almost 3,500 signatures in the Spanish Agency of International cooperation for development (AECID) in protest by the aid allocated to the Foundation Repsol for its projects in Latin America.
Ecologistas en Acción, 15-M environmental platform and save the jungle, among others, criticize that a multinational company receives public subsidies to finance projects that harm the environment, such as spills of crude oil and the displacement of indigenous peoples due to the destruction of their habitat.
In addition, believe that this aid represent the economic empowerment of Repsol.
Associations explained to Efe that they will continue with new demonstrations to denounce this “aggression of civil and environmental rights”.
A few weeks ago, the Plural left parliamentary group registered in the Congress of Deputies a non legislative proposal which indicated that Repsol-YPF Foundation received 149.932 euros of the AECID for the “strengthening of the economic and social ventures in communities” where is operating the oil. EFE
