To-be scrapped vessel stolen in Liberia
Object: European Union and ship demolition
The Tahoma Reefer, a vessel measuring 102 m in length, was stolen the 11th of May by an armed band and towed out to sea by 2 fishing boats. Its fate remains unknown to this day.
The Tahoma Reefer had been anchored in Liberia since the beginning of the year in a waiting zone near the access channel to the Monrovia port. Upon its arrival to the port, the vessel had suffered damage from a fire on the 11th of august 2006. This fire was put out by an ocean tugboat belonging to the UN fleet that was on site to help put back into effect port infrastructure systems. The Tahoma Reefer was thus towed to dock. At the start of the year, the port authorities ordered the Estonian proprietor ELS Trans (4Adala tn, Tallin Estonia)* to free the docks, as the Tahoma Reefer posed risks for port security.
Nukes victim of an incurable disease
The decree authorizing creation of the EPR nuclear reactor in Flamanville in Normandy is, to put it simply, ludicrous. It was given without consideration of the public inquiry about releasing at sea liquid effluents of the new reactor. This public inquiry ended on March 17, 2007. The Enquiry Commissioner has not yet given his report and the EPR is already licensed! The current government says that all the information was presented and discussed in the frame of a preliminary public debate. This is false! The public debate of great mediocrity went from March 2005 to April 2006 in the alone department of Manche and attracted fewer people than the debate on the extension of a pleasure port.
