October 20, 2016 Industrial Pollution, Shipbreaking Danish shipping giant caught beaching ships in India and Bangladesh Shipping conglomerate Maersk said on Monday it was striving to improve workers’ rights at shipbreaking yards it uses in India after […]
April 20, 2016 Gulf of Mexico oil spill Debates over Gulf of Mexico dolphin deaths end as federal reports single out BP as the culprit NEW ORLEANS – On this, the sixth anniversary of BP’s Deepwater Horizon blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, the body count among sea mammals […]
August 17, 2015 Shipbreaking Norwegian Shipowners to stop beaching In an op-ed in Dagens Næringsliv, the largest daily business paper in Norway, Norwegian Shipowners Association and their CEO Sturla […]
March 8, 2015 Fossil fuels, Gulf of Mexico oil spill, Oil Five years after BP blowout, Florida’s oil and health problems evade national attention CAT POINT, Florida – It’s almost five years after the Deepwater Horizon blowout and Bellona’s Karl Kristensen and I have just struck […]
January 26, 2015 Shipbreaking Fewer ships scrapped on Asia’s beaches 2014 saw great improvement, but still five Norwegian shipowners send ships for scrapping on Indian beaches.
February 6, 2014 Industrial Pollution, Shipbreaking Twenty-one ships with ties to Norway dumped on beaches in 2013 A total of 40 ships previously owned or controlled by Norwegian interests were recycled in 2013, of which 21 were beached in Pakistan, […]
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June 14, 2013 Climate change Bellona and other NGOs naming and blaming shipowners for beaching vessels on South Asian The NGO Shipbreaking Platform yesterday went online with a new website tracking ships that have been sent for environmentally unsound […]