The treatment of potentially polluting wrecks
Les Journées
d'information du Cedre,
6 october 2003,
Institut Océanographique, Paris
From rusted shipwrecks of the second World War seeping oil now, to new wrecks requiring emergency intervention, potentially polluting wrecks are numerous and bring about many problems, to begin with three fundamental questions: should we intervene? What for? With what money?
The first question supposes to establish that there is a pollution or a pollution threat. The second one supposes an agreement on a common objective. The third one implies a willingness or a constraint to pay.
True to the tradition of its information days, Cedre built this one around two major subjects, firts the identification of the risks and measures to be taken, second a set of case studies highlighting the range of solutions which have been used. Naturally, the Prestige dossier underway was in the mind of all at discussion time.
Last update: 10/10/03
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RISK ASSESSMENT TO INTERVENTION
Chairperson: Jean-René Garnier, Secrétaire général
de la Mer
Jean Croquette et Jean-François Drogou, IFREMER Inventories of potentially polluting wrecks
Fanch Cabioch, Cedre Erika: an example of industrial management of risk neutralisation
Pierre Guyonnet, TOTAL Treating a hazard for Environment and Shipping : the Tricolor
VA Pinon, Préfet maritime Manche - mer du Nord PROBLEMS AND THEIR SOLUTIONS
Chairperson: Kevin Colcomb, Maritime Coastguard Agency, U.K. The action plan of REPSOL YPF in the case of the Prestige : results obtained
Ramón Hernán, E&P Repsol YPF, Spain Dealing with a wreck stranded on a port breakwater : the Coral Bulker
Capt. Raul Henrique Isidro Valente, Direccao Geral da Autoridade Marítima, Portugal and Eng. Alvaro Guidotti, Titan Maritime Ltd., U.K. When further action is needed after partial response: the Castillo de Salas
Gloria Lopez, SASEMAR, Spain An environmental restoration programme 12 years after : the Haven
Ezio Amato, ICRAM, Italy
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