https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Spain in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Greenpeace said Saturday six of its activists boarded a tanker off Spain loaded with "dirty" palm oil to protest against a nature-damaging commodity found in everything from soap to biscuits. https://www.thelocal.es/20181118/activists-board-ship-off-spain-in-palm-oil-protest-greenpeace Sun, 18 Nov 2018 13:29:30 +0100 activists-board-ship-off-spain-in-palm-oil-protest-greenpeace Nevermind policies, Spaniards are more concerned with the personal lives of their political candidates if their Google searches are anything to go by. https://www.thelocal.es/20151120/spanish-politics-pablo-iglesias-is-most-searched-for-party-leader-in-google Fri, 20 Nov 2015 12:18:54 +0100 spanish-politics-pablo-iglesias-is-most-searched-for-party-leader-in-google As Spain’s politicians gear up for December’s general election, Greenpeace has enlisted their mini-mes for a campaign to remind politicians of their environmental pledges. https://www.thelocal.es/20151027/greenpeace-launches-mini-me-political-candidate-campaign Tue, 27 Oct 2015 13:21:20 +0100 greenpeace-launches-mini-me-political-candidate-campaign Spain's economic crisis and successive corruption scandals have led to looser environmental regulations which have taken a huge toll on the environment, Greenpeace said in a report published on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.es/20150604/crisis-has-taken-environmental-toll-greenpeace Thu, 04 Jun 2015 17:42:32 +0200 crisis-has-taken-environmental-toll-greenpeace A Spanish court on Tuesday fined Greenpeace and 16 of its activists €20,000 ($25,000) for damage caused during a protest at a nuclear plant but acquitted them of other, more serious charges. https://www.thelocal.es/20141217/greenpeace Wed, 17 Dec 2014 10:04:00 +0100 greenpeace Environmental group Greenpeace faces one of its toughest ever trials in Spain on Thursday with 16 members plus a photographer risking jail sentences of nearly three years over a protest at a nuclear plant. https://www.thelocal.es/20141204/greenpeace-and-photographer-tried-for-spain-nuclear-protest Thu, 04 Dec 2014 13:57:00 +0100 greenpeace-and-photographer-tried-for-spain-nuclear-protest A Greenpeace ship impounded by Spain earlier this month as it protested oil exploration off the Canary Islands was allowed to leave on Wednesday after payment of a €50,000 ($63,000) bond, a sum they expect to see refunded, the group told The Local. https://www.thelocal.es/20141127/seized-greenpeace-ship-leaves-canaries-after-bail-paid Thu, 27 Nov 2014 10:40:00 +0100 seized-greenpeace-ship-leaves-canaries-after-bail-paid Three in four residents of Spain's tourist-dependent Canary Islands oppose oil prospecting in waters off the coast of the Atlantic archipelago, a poll published on Monday shows. https://www.thelocal.es/20141125/75-of-canary-islanders-oppose-oil-hunt-poll-repsol Tue, 25 Nov 2014 11:06:00 +0100 75-of-canary-islanders-oppose-oil-hunt-poll-repsol UPDATED: Spain said on Wednesday it impounded a Greenpeace ship because the crew defied orders to leave a restricted zone where they were protesting against oil exploration off the Canary Islands. https://www.thelocal.es/20141119/spain-seizes-greenpeace-oil-protest-ship-canary-islands-repsol Wed, 19 Nov 2014 10:18:00 +0100 spain-seizes-greenpeace-oil-protest-ship-canary-islands-repsol An Italian Greenpeace activist was hurt on Saturday in a confrontation with the Spanish navy that intervened during fresh protests against a controversial oil exploration project in waters off the Canary Islands. https://www.thelocal.es/20141116/greenpeace-activist-hurt-in-canaries-oil-clash Sun, 16 Nov 2014 13:09:00 +0100 greenpeace-activist-hurt-in-canaries-oil-clash Greenpeace environmental campaigners painted a black sign the size of a football pitch on a condemned hotel on Spain's southern coast Monday in a dramatic stunt to denounce building abuses. https://www.thelocal.es/20140513/greenpeace-paints-illegal-hotel-black-in-spain Tue, 13 May 2014 11:27:00 +0200 greenpeace-paints-illegal-hotel-black-in-spain The European Parliament has narrowly rejected a ban on bottom trawling, blamed by environmentalists for massive deep-sea destruction but defended by Spain and France. https://www.thelocal.es/20131210/spains-deep-sea-fishers Tue, 10 Dec 2013 14:09:00 +0100 spains-deep-sea-fishers Members of the environmental group Greenpeace have suspended themselves with ropes from the top of Barcelona’s iconic Sagrada Familia Cathedral demanding the immediate release of thirty activists arrested on a Gazprom oil rig in the Russian Arctic. https://www.thelocal.es/20131108/greenpeace-hijacks-barcelonas-sagrada-familia Fri, 08 Nov 2013 14:44:00 +0100 greenpeace-hijacks-barcelonas-sagrada-familia Greenpeace accused Spain on Thursday of overdeveloping its coastline and warned the problem will only get worse due to a new law which it said makes it easier for new projects close to the shore to get approval. https://www.thelocal.es/20130809/half-of-spains-med-coast-is-overbuilt Fri, 09 Aug 2013 11:48:15 +0200 half-of-spains-med-coast-is-overbuilt Eight Greenpeace activists have been arrested after they climbed up to the top of the Spanish Congress, or national parliament, on Thursday morning in protest against a new law that will, in some cases, reduce the protection belt for building along Spain’s coastline from 100 to 20 metres. https://www.thelocal.es/20130509/greenpeace-activists-climb-congress Thu, 09 May 2013 16:41:00 +0200 greenpeace-activists-climb-congress Whether its home evictions, soaring deficit or the jobless rate, the negative side of the crisis gets a lot of coverage. This week in The Local, however, we decided to take a look at some of the silver linings to come out of this difficult period. https://www.thelocal.es/20130423/opinion-the-positive-side-of-the-crisis Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:20:00 +0200 opinion-the-positive-side-of-the-crisis