{"id":4480,"date":"2003-10-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www-prod.greenpeace.org\/usa\/campaign-updates\/4480\/the-prestige-disaster-one-yea\/"},"modified":"2024-12-09T18:18:35","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T18:18:35","slug":"the-prestige-disaster-one-yea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/the-prestige-disaster-one-yea\/","title":{"rendered":"The Prestige Disaster: One Year On."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class='p4descriptive_paragraph'>Far away from the press headlines, an almost silent battle is being fought between those who profit from the business of transporting hazardous substances by sea and those of us who defend drastic measures to prevent new oil slicks. Ever since the Prestige began to pour lethal fuel into the Atlantic one year ago, little has changed in legal terms. Although the European Union has forbidden the entry of single-hulled ships carrying heavy fuel into European ports, this type of fuel represents only around 5 percent of all the oil products that enter Europe. Nevertheless, the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) has already hit the roof over this timid initiative.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/planet4-usa-stateless\/2024\/12\/971a70d7-the-prestige-disaster-one-yea.pdf\">Download document<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Num. pages:<\/b> 40<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download document<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":10070,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[223],"tags":[26,100],"p4-page-type":[29],"class_list":["post-4480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oceans","tag-oceans","tag-fossil-fuels","p4-page-type-research"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.9 (Yoast SEO v23.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Prestige Disaster: One Year On. - Greenpeace<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/the-prestige-disaster-one-yea\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Prestige Disaster: One Year On.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Download document\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/the-prestige-disaster-one-yea\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Greenpeace\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/greenpeaceusa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2003-10-24T00:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-12-09T18:18:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-usa-stateless\/2024\/11\/81818f40-gp04pj7.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@greenpeaceusa\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@greenpeaceusa\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Greenpeace Staff\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/the-prestige-disaster-one-yea\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/the-prestige-disaster-one-yea\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Greenpeace Staff\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/#\/schema\/person\/2e289e91a0312e6d4e4d364719a17e24\"},\"headline\":\"The Prestige Disaster: One Year On.\",\"datePublished\":\"2003-10-24T00:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-12-09T18:18:35+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/the-prestige-disaster-one-yea\/\"},\"wordCount\":118,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/the-prestige-disaster-one-yea\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-usa-stateless\/2024\/11\/81818f40-gp04pj7.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Oceans\",\"Fossil Fuels\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Oceans\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/the-prestige-disaster-one-yea\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/the-prestige-disaster-one-yea\/\",\"name\":\"The Prestige Disaster: One Year On. - Greenpeace\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/the-prestige-disaster-one-yea\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/the-prestige-disaster-one-yea\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-usa-stateless\/2024\/11\/81818f40-gp04pj7.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2003-10-24T00:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-12-09T18:18:35+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/the-prestige-disaster-one-yea\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/the-prestige-disaster-one-yea\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/the-prestige-disaster-one-yea\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-usa-stateless\/2024\/11\/81818f40-gp04pj7.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-usa-stateless\/2024\/11\/81818f40-gp04pj7.jpg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":800,\"caption\":\"Rescue workers, local volunteers and PTT personnel attempt to clean up the oil spill at Ao Phrao beach in Ko Samet, Rayong Province, one of the areas most affected by the oil spill. More than 50,000 liters of crude oil has spilled into the sea, 20 kilometers southeast of the Map Ta Phut industrial estate following a leak from a pipeline at an offshore platform. The pipeline is operated by PTT Global Chemical Public Company, a subsidiary of PTT Public Company Limited (the largest fossil fuel conglomerate in Thailand). Greenpeace is calling on the Thai government to review its energy policy and to put an end to oil drilling and exploration in the Gulf of Thailand.\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/the-prestige-disaster-one-yea\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"The Prestige Disaster: One Year On.\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/\",\"name\":\"Greenpeace USA\",\"description\":\"Greenpeace\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Greenpeace USA\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-usa-stateless\/2024\/11\/cd951b96-greenpeace-logo-1.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-usa-stateless\/2024\/11\/cd951b96-greenpeace-logo-1.png\",\"width\":299,\"height\":51,\"caption\":\"Greenpeace USA\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/greenpeaceusa\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/greenpeaceusa\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/greenpeaceusa\/\"],\"description\":\"Greenpeace USA is committed to transforming the country\u2019s unjust social, environmental, and economic systems from the ground up to address the climate crisis, safeguard our planet for future generations, advance racial justice, and build an economy that puts people over profits.\",\"email\":\"connect@greenpeace.us\",\"telephone\":\"1-800-722-6995\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/#\/schema\/person\/2e289e91a0312e6d4e4d364719a17e24\",\"name\":\"Greenpeace Staff\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5c8828a85b0f57d915f9c693e00f451bee688c8e2caa340c46172207737764bd?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5c8828a85b0f57d915f9c693e00f451bee688c8e2caa340c46172207737764bd?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Greenpeace Staff\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/author\/gpeacestaff\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"The Prestige Disaster: One Year On. - Greenpeace","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/the-prestige-disaster-one-yea\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"The Prestige Disaster: One Year On.","og_description":"Download document","og_url":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/the-prestige-disaster-one-yea\/","og_site_name":"Greenpeace","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/greenpeaceusa","article_published_time":"2003-10-24T00:00:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2024-12-09T18:18:35+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":800,"url":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-usa-stateless\/2024\/11\/81818f40-gp04pj7.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@greenpeaceusa","twitter_site":"@greenpeaceusa","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Greenpeace Staff","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/the-prestige-disaster-one-yea\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/the-prestige-disaster-one-yea\/"},"author":{"name":"Greenpeace Staff","@id":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/#\/schema\/person\/2e289e91a0312e6d4e4d364719a17e24"},"headline":"The Prestige Disaster: One Year On.","datePublished":"2003-10-24T00:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2024-12-09T18:18:35+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/the-prestige-disaster-one-yea\/"},"wordCount":118,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/the-prestige-disaster-one-yea\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-usa-stateless\/2024\/11\/81818f40-gp04pj7.jpg","keywords":["Oceans","Fossil Fuels"],"articleSection":["Oceans"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/the-prestige-disaster-one-yea\/","url":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/the-prestige-disaster-one-yea\/","name":"The Prestige Disaster: One Year On. - Greenpeace","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/the-prestige-disaster-one-yea\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/the-prestige-disaster-one-yea\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-usa-stateless\/2024\/11\/81818f40-gp04pj7.jpg","datePublished":"2003-10-24T00:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2024-12-09T18:18:35+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/the-prestige-disaster-one-yea\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/the-prestige-disaster-one-yea\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/the-prestige-disaster-one-yea\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-usa-stateless\/2024\/11\/81818f40-gp04pj7.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-usa-stateless\/2024\/11\/81818f40-gp04pj7.jpg","width":1200,"height":800,"caption":"Rescue workers, local volunteers and PTT personnel attempt to clean up the oil spill at Ao Phrao beach in Ko Samet, Rayong Province, one of the areas most affected by the oil spill. More than 50,000 liters of crude oil has spilled into the sea, 20 kilometers southeast of the Map Ta Phut industrial estate following a leak from a pipeline at an offshore platform. The pipeline is operated by PTT Global Chemical Public Company, a subsidiary of PTT Public Company Limited (the largest fossil fuel conglomerate in Thailand). Greenpeace is calling on the Thai government to review its energy policy and to put an end to oil drilling and exploration in the Gulf of Thailand."},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/the-prestige-disaster-one-yea\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The Prestige Disaster: One Year On."}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/","name":"Greenpeace USA","description":"Greenpeace","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/#organization","name":"Greenpeace USA","url":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-usa-stateless\/2024\/11\/cd951b96-greenpeace-logo-1.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-usa-stateless\/2024\/11\/cd951b96-greenpeace-logo-1.png","width":299,"height":51,"caption":"Greenpeace USA"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/greenpeaceusa","https:\/\/x.com\/greenpeaceusa","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/greenpeaceusa\/"],"description":"Greenpeace USA is committed to transforming the country\u2019s unjust social, environmental, and economic systems from the ground up to address the climate crisis, safeguard our planet for future generations, advance racial justice, and build an economy that puts people over profits.","email":"connect@greenpeace.us","telephone":"1-800-722-6995"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/#\/schema\/person\/2e289e91a0312e6d4e4d364719a17e24","name":"Greenpeace Staff","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5c8828a85b0f57d915f9c693e00f451bee688c8e2caa340c46172207737764bd?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5c8828a85b0f57d915f9c693e00f451bee688c8e2caa340c46172207737764bd?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Greenpeace Staff"},"url":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/author\/gpeacestaff\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4480"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12278,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4480\/revisions\/12278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4480"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=4480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}