(Français) Projet d’arrêté fixant les prescriptions générales applicables aux dragages ou aux rejets de dragages
A Seveso high threshold factory bites the dust
This morning Kem One was convicted by the Marseille correctional court to pay a fine of 50,000 €, 4,000 € in moral damages to environmental protection associations with the status of civil claimants and 5,000 € to Robin des Bois for ecological damages for the discharge of harmful substances.
Scuttling of the Sao Paulo : pollution has a future
They did so at dusk, 349.5 km off the Brazilian coast, on the edge of the Exclusive Economic Zone, “in order to avoid any logistical, operational, environmental and economic damage to the Brazilian State”. In its press release, the Brazilian Navy paid tribute to the aircraft carrier and its crews “worthy servants of the French and Brazilian navies”. The export licence for the ex-Foch in 2000 specified that the conditions for dismantling the Sao Paulo aircraft carrier had to be authorised in advance by the French authorities. In a way, France is an accomplice in this disaster decided and assumed by Brazil.
(Français) Transport maritime de marchandises : comment freiner cette pollution exponentielle?
Notices of oil spills on the world ocean
While the French Navy is sealing up cracks on the forepart of the Tanio wreck (1980) off Brittany, oil spills or oil spill risks are multiplying. The Covid-19 pandemic is involved in this resurgence. The crews are no longer relieved. Confined to their workplaces, they are overworked, cut off from the world and depressed. The Indian captain of the Wakashio, which ran aground on Mauritius, had been on board for a year and other crew members for 9 months. The minimal maintenance of merchant ships is also delayed. Political circumstances are other aggravating factors, as in the example of FSO (Floating Storage and Offloading) units which in peacetime “feed” tankers that have come empty from all over the world.
