http://www.cedre.fr/ Cedre was created in 1978, in the aftermath of the Amoco Cadiz oil spill, in a bid to be more fully prepared for accidental water pollution and to strengthen the national response organisation. Tue, 10 Mar 2009 04:00:00 GMT Tue, 14 April 2009 09:41:01 GMT http://www.cedre.fr/rss/actualite.xml contact@cedre.fr contact@cedre.fr http://www.cedre.fr/en/publication/newsletter/2011/196_E.php http://www.cedre.fr/ Tue, 30 november 2011 16:11:05 +0100 Emergency response / Visit from the Deputy Secretary General of the Sea / CESE hearing / 2nd Cross-Channel Forum / Brest - Cedre Technical Day on incident feedback / Brest - 34th Cedre Strategic Committee meeting / November training courses / Completion of rehabilitation work on the Island of Er trenches / European project ARCOPOL - Closure and awareness-raising actions / Erika: First cheque from the insurer Rina / A barge caught illegally discharging on the Seine / Donges: legal proceedings for the pollution of the Loire on 16 March 2008 / http://www.cedre.fr/en/publication/newsletter/2011/195_E.php http://www.cedre.fr/ Tue, 30 october 2011 16:11:05 +0100 Emergency response / EGEMP meeting / Preparatory meeting for the winter season of State action at sea / Visit from the Ambassador of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam / Visit by Mrs Christine Boutin / AMOP 2011 / GI WACAF 2011 / Arctic Oil Spill Conference / Spill response exercise in Gabon / October training courses / Science Festival / Discharge of the captain of the Tian Du Feng (cont.) / Deepwater Horizon: a minor victory for BP http://www.cedre.fr/en/publication/newsletter/2011/194_E.php http://www.cedre.fr/ Tue, 30 september 2011 16:11:05 +0100 Emergency response / Inauguration of Cedre's flume tank / Researchers' Night / September training courses: the ORSEC/POLMAR tour of France continues / Rehabilitation of over forty-year-old storage trenches / Uganda: establishment of the oil spill contingency plan / Workshop in Egypt / Visit from a delegation of the North Atlantic Coast Guard Forum / Volunteering in civil protection / The Deepwater Horizon saga / Oil spills in the Bohai Sea, north-east China (cont.) / Hungary: toxic red sludge http://www.cedre.fr/en/publication/newsletter/2011/193_E.php http://www.cedre.fr/ Tue, 30 august 2011 16:11:05 +0100 Emergency response / POLMAR training courses and exercises: sustained activity / 12th IMO OPRC-HNS Technical Group meeting / Particularly Sensitive Sea Area / Oil spill in Yellowstone River (Montana, north-west US) / Oil spills in the Bohai Sea (China) / Shell accused of polluting the Niger Delta / North Sea oil spill / Bombay: 23rd shipwrecking in 29 years http://www.cedre.fr/en/publication/newsletter/2011/192_E.php http://www.cedre.fr/ Tue, 30 june 2011 16:11:05 +0100 Emergency response / US-Canada spill response exercise / June training courses / New project / Spill contingency plan update for the Société Ivoirienne de Raffinage / Dispersants workshop in Accra (Ghana) / Tian Du Feng trial in Brest, the only case of illegal discharge reported in 2010 / Erika 3 legislative package: incomplete transposition into French law / What do Chevrolet and Deepwater Horizon have in common? / Phenol pollution in the Xin’an river (China) http://www.cedre.fr/en/publication/newsletter/2011/191_E.php http://www.cedre.fr/ Fri, 27 mai 2011 16:11:05 +0100 Emergency response / Strategic Committee meeting / "Quartier des sciences" festival / Guadeloupe POLMAR training / REMPEC focal points meeting / Safer Seas 2011 / International Oil Spill Conference / BAWG OTSOPA 2011 meeting / Oil in Alberta (Canada) / Illegal discharge from the Kaltene in Brittany / BP: a record-breaking fine http://www.cedre.fr/en/publication/newsletter/2011/190_E.php http://www.cedre.fr/ Fri, 30 april 2011 16:11:05 +0100 Emergency response / Mar-ICE convention / Mothy model: version 3.3 / Training course in Noumea / April training courses / ICOPCE 2011 in Singapore / Arcopol conference in Cardiff / Cameroon: national contingency plan reinforced / SEP Congo develops contingency plans for inland waters / Abidjan Convention: creation of a regional centre / Deepwater Horizon: BP sues Transocean and Cameron International http://www.cedre.fr/en/publication/newsletter/2011/189_E.php http://www.cedre.fr/ Tue, 30 march 2011 16:11:05 +0100 Emergency response / Retirement of Michel Girin, former Director of Cedre / CECIS course in Brussels / Cedre Information Day / Cedre presentation meeting / Trawl fabric trials / Working meeting with Ecocéane / Visit from representatives of Florida Gulf Coast University / Interspill steering committee meeting / Brest 2012 - Les Tonnerres de Brest / Conference in Malmö / MS Oliva: Tristan Da Cunha archipelago / Gulf of Mexico: Deepwater Horizon (cont.) http://www.cedre.fr/en/publication/newsletter/2011/188_E.php http://www.cedre.fr/ Tue, 30 february 2011 16:11:05 +0100 Emergency response / Conference in Quebec / Exploration drilling off French Guiana / Exercise in Gabon / Products approved by Cedre's laboratory / Visit to Vigie Aviation / Norway: oil in a marine reserve / Rhine: sulphuric acid threat / Iran: pipeline leak / Ecuador: record-breaking fine / Azerbaijan: thermal oil cures http://www.cedre.fr/en/publication/newsletter/2011/187_E.php http://www.cedre.fr/ Tue, 30 january 2011 16:11:05 +0100 Emergency response / Deepwater Horizon / Assessment of the "Slick Sleuth" floating oil detection system / Cedre exhibition at La Pérouse library / Sub-regional workshop on HNS in Cairo / Ammunition dumped at sea / UK: austerity measures / Gulf of Mexico: a new leak… of gas / Animal fat spill in Houston Ship Channel / Use of the US Trust Fund for response in a canal http://www.cedre.fr/en/publication/newsletter/2010/186_E.php http://www.cedre.fr/ Tue, 30 december 2010 16:11:05 +0100 Emergency response / "Pollution and biodiversity" exhibition, Cedre, Brest / EC and EMSA action on accidental water pollution / Sorption tests on REP's skirted sorbent boom "Ecosorb" / A spill contingency plan for HTT SA / Contingency plans for Total Refining Marketing depots / MOBEX 2010 exercise and seminar / POLMAR-Sea Guiana exercise http://www.cedre.fr/en/publication/newsletter/2010/185_E.php http://www.cedre.fr/ Tue, 30 november 2010 16:11:05 +0100 "Pollution and Biodiversity" exhibition at Cedre, from 13 to 17 December / Emergency response / Technical Day and Cedre Strategic Committee / Arcopol / London: IPIECA's ITAC and OSWG meetings / Malta: MOIG technical session / Clara II / Train the trainer course in Tunis / Training course in Andalusia (cont.) / Petroleum Environment Research Forum (PERF) / Information meeting at UIC / Dakar refinery / Technip contract for a marine well containment system http://www.cedre.fr/en/publication/newsletter/2010/184_E.php http://www.cedre.fr/ Tue, 30 october 2010 16:11:05 +0100 Emergency response / The YM URANUS incident / Hungary: flood of toxic sludge / Cross-Channel Forum, UK / European project Arcopol / Nancy: ecotechnological days / Training / California: exploration of the Montebello shipwreck http://www.cedre.fr/en/publication/newsletter/2010/183_E.php http://www.cedre.fr/ Tue, 30 spetember 2010 16:11:05 +0100 Emergency response / Deepwater Horizon (cont.) / Visit from the Republic of the Congo's Minister for the Merchant Navy / France: CPB spill contingency plan / Vigo, experimentation and DRIFTER project meeting / London: IMO OPRC-HNS Technical Group meeting / Brest, Océanopolis: 6th Researchers' Night / ORSEC - POLMAR-Land training courses in Normandy / Practical training course for the Malian companies Semos and Yatela / Monaco: "Oil spill response" training course \ Côtes-d'Armor: pumping fuel oil out of the warship Laplace / Gulf of Mexico: new offshore platform blaze http://www.cedre.fr/en/publication/newsletter/2010/182_E.php http://www.cedre.fr/ Tue, 05 august 2010 16:11:05 +0100 Emergency response / Mission in Louisiana / Deepwater Horizon rig (cont.) / Dispersant workshops in the Indian Ocean / Infrared video camera trials / New INERIS website / China: explosion of two pipelines / India: oil spill off Bombay / United States: pipeline leak / Nigeria: the largest oil spill? \ Strait of Hormuz: explosion onboard an oil tanker http://www.cedre.fr/en/publication/newsletter/2010/181_E.php http://www.cedre.fr/ Tue, 05 june 2010 16:11:05 +0100 Emergency response / Deepwater Horizon rig (cont.) / IMO mission in the Bahamas / Study visit by an Egyptian delegation / French Minister of Ecology visits Brest / France: Form-Edit seminar / Netmar workshop / Oil Spill Response Ltd celebrates its 25th anniversary / Industrial Technical Advisory Committee meeting / AMOP 2010 http://www.cedre.fr/en/publication/newsletter/2010/180_E.php http://www.cedre.fr/ Tue, 01 june 2010 16:11:05 +0100 Emergency response / Mont-Lacq: Cedre Strategic Committee meeting / Symposium on the 'politics and sciences of the sea' / OTSOPA 2010 / Polmar training course in the Bouches-du-Rhône area / Training in Andalusia / Berlin: Migr'hycar artificial river trials / 1st Oil Spill Conference in Croatia / Gulf of Mexico: sinking of Deepwater Horizon oil rig (cont.) http://www.cedre.fr/en/publication/newsletter/2010/179_E.php http://www.cedre.fr/ Tue, 04 mai 2010 16:11:05 +0100 Emergency response / Gulf of Mexico: oil rig sinks / MOTHY model: version 3.1 now operational / Guadeloupe POLMAR training / France: contingency plan for the Compagnie Pétrochimique de Berre / European project: ARCOPOL / Spillcon 2010 / IPIECA Oil Spill Working Group http://www.cedre.fr/en/publication/newsletter/2010/178_E.php http://www.cedre.fr/ Tue, 05 april 2010 16:11:05 +0100 Emergency response / Cedre Information Day / Training courses / 10th OPRC-HNS technical group meeting in London / A brand new laboratory / Annual Cedre - ITOPF meeting / Consultation of stakeholders by EMSA / Honfleur oil terminal / Experimentation in Vigo Bay (Spain) / BAR 3 D project closure / New website for MEEDDM / HNS spill in Canada http://www.cedre.fr/en/publication/newsletter/2010/177_E.php http://www.cedre.fr/ Fri, 05 march 2010 16:11:05 +0100 Emergency response / Total Refining-Marketing contingency plans / Information Day for communities bordering the Bay of Brest / AMPERA- France: progress meeting / DETHERPOLMAR: closure meeting / Italy: oil spill on the Po River http://www.cedre.fr/en/publication/jourinfo10.php http://www.cedre.fr/ Thu, 11 march 2010 16:11:05 +0100 Morning session: National stockpiles / The various types of stockpiles: background and difficulties / Polmar Land stockpiles / Polmar Sea stockpiles / ECRC-SIMEC stockpile management / Alternatives proposed by manufacturers / Afternoon session: International stockpiles / Fast Oil Spill Team (FOST) / Oil Spill Response (OSR) / Clean Caribbean and Americas (CCA) http://www.cedre.fr/en/publication/newsletter/2010/176_E.php http://www.cedre.fr/ Tue, 05 february 2010 16:11:05 +0100 Emergency response / Annual MOTHY statistics / Follow-up to the Grenelle de la Mer summit / Marine nature park project / WISG 2010 / Dispersant approved by Cedre's laboratory / Discobiol project / Meeting in Norway / Europe/Egypt twinning (cont.) / Somalia: two supertankers in the hands of pirates / China: pollution of the Yellow River / US: tanker collision near Port Arthur http://www.cedre.fr/en/publication/newsletter/2009/175_E.php http://www.cedre.fr/ Tue, 05 January 2010 16:11:05 +0100 Emergency response / Meeting of the Board of Governors and a change of President for Cedre / Crisis communication training course / REMPEC - Cedre - Customs course in Morocco / EDF course in French Guiana / Maritime ORSEC plan for the Antilles / Sorbent approved by Cedre's laboratory / Public environment information portal / Ineris: new version of the chemical substances portal / Russia and the US: serial pipeline leaks http://www.cedre.fr/en/publication/aeri/aeri.php http://www.cedre.fr/ Tue, 18 December 2009 16:11:05 +0100 The first vocation of this operational guide is to be present onboard all aircraft likely to be involved in aerial observation of oil pollution at sea. However it is also a useful tool in pollution response centres and as a technical support for public relations personnel. http://www.cedre.fr/en/publication/newsletter/2009/174_E.php http://www.cedre.fr/ Tue, 05 December 2009 16:11:05 +0100 Emergency response / November training courses / Bar3D experimentation / Consultative Technical Group meeting / IMO/IPIECA workshop / Meetings in Turkey / Fort Lauderdale: pollution in the Arctic / Workshop in Columbia / China and the US: acid problems / Australia: West Atlas rig (cont. - see Newsletters 172 and 173) http://www.cedre.fr/en/publication/newsletter/2009/173_E.php http://www.cedre.fr/ Tue, 05 November 2009 16:11:05 +0100 Emergency response / Collision on the Seine / Incident at Berre petrochemical site / Grounding of the Gülser Ana, cont. / OSCAR-MED exercise / Polmar training courses and exercises / IMO audit / 5th symposium Entretiens de Port-Cros / Australia: West Atlas rig, cont. http://www.cedre.fr/en/publication/newsletter/2009/172_E.php http://www.cedre.fr/ Tue, 06 October 2009 16:11:05 +0100 Emergency response / Grounding of the Gülser Ana / Incident at Berre petrochemical site / Training in Turkey / Experimentation in the North Sea / NATO-Russian Federation workshop / SCLOG assignment, Republic of Congo / UK: Napoli, the end / Strait of Malacca : collision and fire / Australia: leak from offshore well http://www.cedre.fr/en/publication/newsletter/2009/171_E.php http://www.cedre.fr/ Tue, 08 September 2009 16:11:05 +0100 Emergency response / Crude oil leak from a pipeline / Study for EDF Chinon / New director for Cetmef / EMSA: Maritime Accident Review 2008 / Crisis communication course: a few places left! / Website: expansion of the spills section / Mediterranean: a network of prosecutors / European Union twinning project - Egypt / Santa Barbara: natural oil seepage http://www.cedre.fr/en/publication/newsletter/2009/170_E.php http://www.cedre.fr/ Tue, 04 August 2009 16:11:05 +0100 Emergency response / France: spill response exercise at the Normandy refinery / Cedre rises from the ashes / Préfectures Maritimes: new commissioners appointed / Total Guadeloupe exercise, Pointe-à-Pitre / Workshop in Vigo / Belgium: visit to the Port of Antwerp / Refloating the wreck of MSC Napoli / Erika: appeal hearing to begin in October/ 650 sacks contaminated with PCB recovered last May/ RSS news feed on Cedre's website http://cedrelocal/en/publication/sorbent/sorbent.php http://www.cedre.fr/ Tue, 02 July 2009 16:11:05 +0100 The guide is aimed at operators liable to use sorbents as part of response operations to accidental oil or chemical pollution. The contents of this guide remain very practical. It provides information on sorbent types, specifications, particularities, regulations, deployment techniques, waste disposal and precautions of use http://www.cedre.fr/en/publication/newsletter/2009/169_E.php http://www.cedre.fr/ Tue, 02 July 2009 16:11:05 +0100 Emercency response / Spill in Theys / "Grenelle de la mer" summit / Polmar Sea 2009 exercise / Polmar course in Guadeloupe / Training course of Egypt / Greentide 2009 exercise / Case study, setting up local contingency plans / Cedre open day for the centre's 30th anniversary http://www.cedre.fr/en/publication/newsletter/2009/168_E.php http://www.cedre.fr/ Tue, 09 June 2009 16:11:05 +0100 Cedre Open Day, 19 June / Emercency response / Infopol course / Interspill conference-exhibition / EURONYME 2009 exercise / OSPAR Marine Beach Litter Programme / Oil spill waste: trenches from the Torrey Canyon on the Ile d'Er / OTSOPA meeting / Training-Normandy refinery contingency plan / Workshop in Costa Rica / Freshwater Spill Symposium in the US / IMO-UNEP assessment and restoration manual http://www.cedre.fr/en/training/index.php http://www.cedre.fr Tue, 09 June 2009 16:11:05 +0100 Cedre trains on average 800 people a year, from French and overseas administrations and local government, as well as industry. To ensure that we fully fulfil your specific requirements and expectations, we offer several formulas. - Annual scheduled courses at our facilities - Courses at Cedre for a specific client - On site training. http://www.cedre.fr/en/publication/newsletter/2009/167_E.php http://www.cedre.fr/ Tue, 05 Mai 2009 16:11:05 +0100 Fire in Cedre's laboratory / Emercency response / Interspill conference-exhibition / Demonstrations at sea / "Grenelle de la Mer" summit / Europe : EMSA pollution report / Spain: first judgment for the Prestige / Lebanon: a new angle / Forum in China