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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 criticisms of hazardous conditions were leveled at it in the Danish Media.

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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 is still rising and has been caused by oil.

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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 Henriksen say a definite NO to shipbreaking on beaches. -This is a major victory for Bellona and all other NGOs fighting against dangerous dismantling of ships, Bellona advisor Sigurd Enge said.

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 oil on a beach in Cat Point, Florida – a state whose post-spill wounds have gone untreated for too long.

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.

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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, India or Bangladesh, areas that are characterized by extremely dangerous working conditions and significant environmental exposure to asbestos, heavy metals and Polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs.

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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 breaking on South Asian beaches, and allowing easier tracking of companies and nations that essentially abandon derelict vessels to substandard dismantling facilities on the shores of the developing world.