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Wednesday, Dec 14, 2005
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Shipping Industry & Economy - Environment Protests against sending French ship to Alang — Allowing the highly hazardous Clemenceau will 'harm workers' Our Bureau
New Delhi , Dec. 13 ACTIVISTS of various groups today urged the French authorities not to scrap the decommissioned French warship Clemenceau in shipbreaking yards in India. Demanding stricter regime for the shipbreaking industry worldwide, in general, and India and Bangladesh, in particular, the workers of the international NGO Greenpeace, along with organisations such as Corporate Accountability Desk and Centre for Indian Trade Unions, urged the French government not to dump the "highly toxic" ship on the Indian shipyard at Alang. "Dumping Clemenceau on India or any other Asian ship breaking yard not equipped to deal with this toxic behemoth would be highly hazardous to the unprotected, vulnerable and poor workers," said Mr Shailendra Yashwant, Campaign Director, Greenpeace India. Earlier in the day, Greenpeace activists from Europe and India boarded the heavily guarded Clemenceau, parked at the French naval base in Toulon, and painted `asbestos-carrier - stay out of India' on the hull of the aircraft carrier. The activists were protesting against the foreign ships that are transported, some of them allegedly illegally to shipping yards in India and Bangladesh where the ships are scrapped, primarily for their steel content. Beauport II, a ship, which has not been decontaminated of its in-built hazards, landed at Alang recently, alleged Ms Madhumita Dutta of Corporate Accountability Group. "The ship has not submitted its form 7, issued by the exporting country that lists an inventory of the toxic material in the ship. In fact, the Danish Minister had written to the Environment Minister, Mr A. Raja informing him that the ship has illegally left Denmark and should be sent back for decontamination," she said adding that if the Indian Government allows the ship to be broken, it would be in violation of the Basel norms as well as the Supreme Court's directive and Environment Ministry rules.
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