Oil Exploration Started In 2013 The Terrace Twins—Brandon Block & Alex P p9/10
West End Chic—Worra Lorra Worker Clobba p 18/19
Despite the authorities supposedly saying that no oil exploration has taken place around the Baleares, a Balearic government report from over a year ago has come to light showing that in April 2013 an oil company already carried out sound wave exploration for oil in waters around the islands using high powered compressed air cannons. The sound waves produced by the cannon shots registered a volume of 230 decibels and negatively affected the marine creatures in an area of ocean totalling 300,000 km2. What is worse is that the tests seemingly took place just as the whale population of the Mediterranean was migrating through the area and they were apparently negatively disturbed by the sound detonations from the exploration vessel. Other marine mammals were dangerously affected by the volume produced by the cannons and (Continued on page 2)