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====Canary Islands==== Following years of opposition from environmentalist groups, Spain finally gave permission in August 2014, for the company and its partners to explore prospects off the [[Canary Islands]].<ref name="RepsolCanary">{{cite news|title=Spain's Repsol gets long awaited green signal to explore off Canary Islands|url=http://www.spainnews.net/index.php/sid/224721995|date=13 August 2014|access-date=13 August 2014|publisher=Spain News.Net}}</ref> In January 2015, after two months of exploration about 50 kilometers off the coasts of [[Fuerteventura]] and [[Lanzarote]], the company said in a statement it only found small deposits that were not worth drilling thus scrapping the project.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jan/19/repsol-scraps-controversial-oil-exploration-off-canary-islands Repsol scraps controversial oil exploration off Canary Islands], [[The Guardian]] 19 January 2015</ref>
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