Paul Rees
Portugal’s principal Hotels Association has issued a damning statement about the government’s support of the oil industry, notably the planned Galp-ENI test well 46 kilometres off Aljezur which is going ahead without an Environmental Impact Assessment.
The Association of Hotels in Portugal (AHP) points out that, "it has been reiterating, since 2016, when the first news about oil exploration came to the public, that the simple association of the ‘Portugal’ and ‘Algarve’ brand with a polluting industry such as oil exploration will be very negative for tourism.”
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