Arctic: Keep it In My Backyard (KIMBY)
The Arctic Council is meeting this week in Kiruna Sweden an appropriately choice for the venue considering that mans’ impacts on the Arctic climate will be high on the agenda. Kiruna hosts the largest underground iron mine in the world where in response to ground deformations caused by mining, the city will be relocated over the coming years. Later this week at Kiruna the eight Arctic States (Russia, Finland, Denmark for Greenland, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, the U.S. and Canada) will sign a ‘Marine Oil Pollution Preparedness and Response’ agreement. The agreement aims to strengthen cooperation, coordination and mutual assistance on pollution preparedness and response in the Arctic in order to protect the marine environment from pollution by oil. Despite this noble promise the agreement does little more than reinforce existing international agreements.
Denatura 2000
Subject : dredging Loctudy (Finistère)
The departmental management scheme for dredging in Finistère promotes stagnation and consolidates bad habits. Dumping mud from the Loctudy and Lesconil ports into the Natura 2000 marine area of the Roches de Penmarc’h proves it. The Natura 2000 site has a kelp forest that shelters a biodiversity of major economic importance. It has been chipped by the currents and the streams. The underwater harbor waste dumping in Finistère will scatter and impact the waters of Morbihan.
