Conflicting performance models: ten years after the Prestige

Abstract

This article discusses, a reality marked by patterns of development in which one of the most characteristic is that of a growing and, sometimes, exaggerated and not always controlled technological development, whose effects have begun to realize. One reason has been the consideration of anomalies and variants, as a consequence of that phenomenon, occurring in our environment, all summarized in the growing concern for the environment in the context of regional geography. A good example is in the consequences created by the sinking of the Prestige, last ten years. The study of this tragedy, it follows that should be raised and generate significant changes in energy policy, because it is an absurdity that after the Prestige disaster, has maintai­ned a policy that favors at least that Spain fulfills the commitments of the Protocol Kyoto, now that we are facing Rio +20.