Protests are continuing on the Canaries following the decision by the Spanish government to approve oil drilling off the islands. On Lanzarote, the only petrol station there belonging to Repsol, one of the oil companies which are part of the drilling consortium, is being boycotted said Robert Schmid, president of the Fundación Antroposófica...In June, some 250,000 Canaries inhabitants demonstrated against the drilling, a protest which received little attention in the international...Oil drilling would also place the drinking water supply of the islands at risk, which is all obtained from the sea...Drilling itself will take place at the critical depth in which the oil catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico also happened…If a disaster like the one in the Gulf of Mexico struck and the coastline and environment suffered lasting pollution from an oil spill, the island of Lanzarote “might as well shut up shop” Schmid added...