Antarctic fuel oil ban to impact on Falklands tourism

Tuesday, April 7th 2009 - 19:21 UTC

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FALKLANDS, Argentine, and Chilean cruise ship tourism is likely to be negatively impacted as a result of a ban on the use and carriage of Heavy Gas Oil (HGO) in Antarctic waters by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO). Read full article

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Salvador
That's good news for the Panama Canal operators...
Apr 07th, 2009 - 08:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Juan
The real headline: Argentine (where Malvinas is included) and Chilean cruise ship tourism is likely to be negatively impacted as a result of a ban on the use and carriage of Heavy Gas Oil (HGO) in Antarctic waters by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO).
Falklands is the Fantasy name of Malvinas.
Apr 08th, 2009 - 09:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Argie
I imagine that the Antarctic bases' sources of energy will be then clean as a whistle from now on. Perhaps solar panels would be used to charge batteries in summer and wind-driven generators in winter. But are there any ecological batteries to store the huge amounts needed, or the remedy will turn out to be worse than the illness?
Apr 08th, 2009 - 10:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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