Maritime Safety, including Container-Ships

Les grands voiliers transportaient de la soie, du camphre, de la cannelle. Aujourd’hui, les géants des mers transportent du nucléaire en bonbonnes, du chimique en citernes, du gaz en cuves. Ils sont des sites Seveso transocéaniques. Gigantisme, cargaisons dangereuses, pavillons sous-normes, car-ferries poubelles, équipages novices au bout du rouleau ou de la routine : le transport maritime est un cruel pourvoyeur de pertes humaines, le vecteur caché des risques industriels et une source quotidienne de pertes de marchandises en mer.

(Français) La Vendée autour du Globe

22 Sep 2008

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(Français) Plutonium Transmanche

20 May 2008

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(Français) Plutonium, échange avec le Haut Comité

15 Apr 2008

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(Français) Le plutonium viendra-t-il en carrosse ?

28 Mar 2008

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(Français) Quelle transparence sur le plutonium ?

17 Mar 2008

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(Français) La France dilapide le patrimoine maritime

11 Mar 2008

(Français) La France dilapide le patrimoine maritime

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(Français) Y en a mare* !

15 Jan 2008

(Français) Y en a mare* !

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(Français) Déchets : la filière Europe-Afrique

24 Dec 2007

(Français) Déchets : la filière Europe-Afrique

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(Français) Saint-Malo : la Route de la Rouille

22 Nov 2007

(Français) Saint-Malo : la Route de la Rouille

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Open letter to Mel Gibson

28 Sep 2007

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Dear Mel Gibson,

In the Lloyd’s List of September 12th 2007 in the article “From carbon footprints to CO2 ship blueprints” we read that you openly show your support to a project to design vessels twice the size of a normal capesize bulker to transport carbon dioxide (CO2). “BW Shipping boss Andreas Sohmen-Pao reveals green ambitions and has ally in actor Mel Gibson”. This would be done with the intention to use the CO2 “to make oil and gas fields more productive” i.e. Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR). More than 40 Mt of CO2 are currently used each year in the United States to recover oil. Most of the CO2 comes from deep natural accumulations of CO2 while about 5 % comes from industrial sources. Some of the CO2 used in EOR today is stocked in the well from where it escapes in the mid term, with the exception of the Weyburn oil field pilot project in Canada where the CO2 is recaptured and re-injected for permanent sequestration.
Robin des Bois a French NGO has been fighting for the protection of Man and the Environment since 1985. Robin des Bois has for over 20 years been involved, in the banning of waste storing and waste dumping in or under the world’s oceans. We have very strong reservations on the concepts and projects exposed at the Forbes Global CEO Conference in Singapore by Mr Sohmen-Pao. More generally we have serious doubts on currently exposed Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technological solutions.

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