Las investigaciones de los daños del ‘Prestige’ se pararon hace siete años
La crisis motivó un parón en todas las investigaciones sobre las consecuencias medioambientales
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Investigations of damage 'Prestige' stood for seven years
The crisis led to a slowdown in all investigations on the environmental consequences
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Two years ago we were still finding traces of oil from beaches of Muxia , environmental epicenter of the Prestige disaster . It was already degraded samples to four feet below the surface , but it was tar the last, after all . And you can not determine which avoids effects yet. Feeding habits of some birds have changed. Parasite populations in coastal waters increased at least until 2006.
What happened after ? What is happening now , in 2013 ? Nobody knows : scientific research stopped short . Funding disappeared , but not the tar , or parasites . The crisis closed the case : nobody puts a hard to know if the Prestige is hurting .
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Only indignation and some personal pursuits, outside the official financing is . Discomfort is visible in scientific text for acquittal claiming that Galicia " fully recovered " and that "no demonstrated the persistence " of the environmental effects of the disaster. "If you look , you do not see ," said Ionan Marigómez , director of the Institute of Marine Studies , University of the Basque Country . " Holding this is a nerve because three and a half years after the great catastrophe research plans were cut . Right now, any assertion is rebuttable. "
"It is indecent for a so- judgment as the Prestige disaster ," says Federico Vilas , Professor of Marine Geology at the University of Vigo. Vilas was one of the coordinators of the Technical Office of Marine Discharge that was created for the purpose, under the Ministry of Science and Technology. There was an extraordinary impetus that brought together 212 researchers, 21 universities , 17 research centers and 6 oceanographic centers . At age 7 that office closed , even though the scientific basis claimed that some of the marine research equipment were maintained. " The effort made was huge. It revealed a lot of information , "says Vilas . "We incorporated things international environmental protocols, but the tap is closed ."
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Raúl García , Greenpeace expert Adena, does not understand the sentence. " I'm frustrated ," he says . "As the Prestige out of the spotlight, apparently recovered and returned beaches tourists all over. And now we see impunity : Not guilty , "he laments .
Coincidentally , scientists at the Marine Zoology Unit , University of Valencia had been collecting samples of parasite populations in the waters off the Galician coast before the tanker sank. They studied a fish, the vogue, in areas like Malpica and Vigo. And these samples allowed them to compare years later what had happened : there was a sudden change in parasite populations . A multiplication . " A parasitic boom ," says Ana Perez del Olmo researcher.
" The study came to the year 2006 and until then had not returned to their previous values ," he explains . This study has the unique feature to add pre-and post- collapse data. There is money for current data.
The Government settled any possibility for further research . The Xunta de Galicia two years does not make calls for research . So some university departments make their own. This is the case of the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Santiago. "We are investigating the economic effects in areas of Galicia until 2010-2012 . We do it because the schools should make a contribution to society , "says Sebastian Villasante , a researcher at the university .
Belén Rubio is Dean of the Faculty of Marine Sciences at the University of Vigo. With other researchers have been conducting tastings at Muxia beaches over the years , or had no official funding. They have come to 2011 and the results have been published in scientific journals such as the Journal of Hazardous Materials this year. "This work provides new evidence of persistence in the long term," says the synopsis of the study. The samples were found nine years after the Prestige .
There is no assurance that this research can still be performed . Perhaps researchers will collect samples of pure personal zeal. And the results will be widely disseminated . " We did not do too much disclosure of these studies," says a researcher. " We would not ask and did not allow it ," he concludes .
Eleven years later came the judgment of the case. No culprits. It seems that there are no consequences . And researchers from the coast of Galicia disappeared. But the tar , which is still present beneath the sand and memory .
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