Galp-ENI consortium blocked by oil drilling injunction
Plans to start drilling oil prospection wells off Portugal’s Alentejo and Algarve coast have been stymied by a court in Loulé. The court ruling was in favour of the group ‘Oil-Free Algarve [...]
Going bio: Esporão reaps benefits of organic wine
The Esporão group, one of the most deep-rooted and successful names in the Portuguese winemaking sector, is now reaping the fruits of a decade’s worth of converting its activity to biological [...]
Hoteliers against oil prospection at Aljezur
The Portuguese Hotel Association (AHP) has voiced its opposition to oil prospection at Aljezur. Its opposition to prospection off the Alentejo coast is down to it being a “polluting industry” [...]
Alentejo oil prospection continues
The Portuguese government is to continue to let a joint Italian-Portuguese consortium drill exploratory wells off the breathtaking Costa Vicentina on the Alentejo coast despite opposition from [...]
