POLLUTED SITES

Les strates de l’industrialisation et la désindustrialisation ont superposé dans les sols et sous-sols terrestres et aquatiques des couches de pollutions et greffé dans le paysage et la géologie des bâtiments pollués, des amas de stériles, des fûts et des cuves qui libèrent au fur et à mesure de leur exposition aux intempéries et de la corrosion des résidus et poussières toxiques. L’empreinte écologique de ces ex-activités a une tendance naturelle à s’effacer de la mémoire collective et administrative. Gare à l’oubli et aux reconversions hâtives des friches industrielles et des stations-service.

Children victims of Industrial Wasteland

31 May 2012

On Sunday May 6th, a twelve-year-old child trespassed onto the transformer of the Usmeco plant, at Conches-en-Ouche in the French department Eure (Normandy). This former plant for the surface treatment of metals was the subject of bankruptcy eleven years ago. Despite the interventions from the ADEME (Environmental Agency and Energy Control), there are still dangerous materials inside and heavy metals and cyanides contaminated the soil. The site was not supervised and was not protected against intrusions. According to Robin des Bois, there are strong presumptions that the transformer was contaminated with PCB. If this is the case, it would have had to be eliminated at the latest at the end of year 2010. In any event, it is strange that a transformer inside the closed plant eleven years ago had been under voltage. Other transformers, on the property of Umesco could have been fractured in extracting some copper. The ground belongs to a SCI (real estate company) related to the former directors of Usmesco. The site of Usmesco is registered in the BASOL database that is updated by the Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development, and Energy. The BASOL database lists the sites and polluted grounds calling for a preventive or curative action of public powers.

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(Français) Une niche fiscale et géologique pour les déchets dangereux.

6 Dec 2011

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(Français) L’avenue de la créosote cancérogène

7 Oct 2011

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(Français) L’écotourisme de Robin des Bois

23 Mar 2009

(Français) L’écotourisme de Robin des Bois

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(Français) Chronique des vaches sacrifiées

20 Feb 2009

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(Français) Prendre un enfant par la pollution*

4 Jun 2008

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(Français) Scandale immobilier à Boulogne-Billancourt

13 Oct 2006

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(Français) Asnières : Saturnisme primaire

21 Jul 2004

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(Français) Bretagne: enquête sur 14 incinérateurs éteints

16 Jan 2004

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(Français) L’enterrement de Soferti

4 Dec 2003

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