The agreement on the Druzba Adria project, which was signed by the previous government, envisages the transport of oil from Russia via six countries to the port of Omisalj on the northern Adriatic island of Krk. The Zagreb Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum Engineering and the Oceanography Institute from Split have drawn up a study on the environmental effects of the project.
"Tourism is our oil - We don't need Druzba Adria", "Save the Adriatic pearl". "Oil or tourism - that is the question", read some of the banners which the protesters held outside Zagreb's panorama hotel where member of the commission for evaluating the environmental impact of the Druzba Adria project.
The committee for the protection of the Adriatic gathers nongovernmental organisations for environmental protection and ecological awareness.