ACTION GREENPEACE

Dites non à l’extinction des tortues olivâtres !

Lundi 23 mars 2009. L’entreprise indienne TATA a lancé la Nano, la voiture la moins chère au monde. Au même moment, Greenpeace décide d’envoyer un message fort à l’entreprise qui construit actuellement un port mettant en danger l’espèce, déjà menacée, des tortues olivâtres.

Chaque année, entre 200 000 et 500 000 tortues parcourent des milliers de kilomètres pour venir déposer leurs œufs sur les plages de Gahirmatha, situées sur la côte est. Ces plages se trouvent à seulement 12 kilomètres de la ville de Dharma qui abrite actuellement le gigantesque chantier d’un port sous l’égide de l’entreprise TATA.

TATA est une des plus grandes multinationales indiennes. A titre d’exemple, la compagnie vient de racheter les marques Land Rover et Jaguar. En Inde, sa réputation se ternie depuis quelques années, notamment sur le plan de la responsabilité sociale. Le chantier pharaonique du port de Dharma en est un parfait exemple.

Ce que demande Greenpeace
•    Qu’une étude fiable et indépendante soit menée afin d’évaluer l’impact et les risques environnementaux liés à la construction du port.
•    Que la construction du port soit suspendue durant toute la durée de l’étude.

Pour garantir aux tortues olivâtres la préservation de leur habitat naturel, cliquez ici.  

Trafic de viande de baleine : Greenpeace dénonce la censure du gouvernement japonais

une procédure légale contre la surpêche du thon rouge
Paris, le 17 mars 2009 - Alors que le parlement européen vient d’entériner le plan de gestion du thon rouge, Greenpeace a lancé une procédure légale à l’encontre du Conseil Européen pour sa gestion lamentable de la pêcherie du thon rouge.

Greenpeace a déposé une demande formelle devant le Conseil Européen pour qu’il annule l’attribution des quotas communautaires et qu’il décide une clôture de la pêcherie du thon rouge sur l’ensemble de l’année 2009.

Inde : la construction d’un port met en danger les tortues

Entre 150 000 et 350 000 tortues sont menacées par la construction d’un port situé à Dharma, dans l’Etat de l’Orissa au Sud-est de l’Inde. En effet, l’opération de dragage  nécessaire aux travaux de sa construction pourrait endommager de manière irréversible l’un des derniers sites mondial de reproduction des tortues dites « olivâtres » . La tortue olivâtre est une des plus petites espèces de tortues marines. Elle doit son nom à la couleur olive de sa carapace. Cette espèce est en voie de régression… Afin qu’une étude approfondie puisse être menée sur l’impact écologique d’un tel projet, le dragage doit absolument être stoppé.

Prônant le développement durable et le respect de l’environnement la firme multinationale indienne TATA - en charge du projet - vient pourtant d’annoncer son refus de suspendre ses travaux de construction.
Selon Ashish Fernandes, chargé de campagne Océans pour Greenpeace  “Ce refus est en total incohérence avec les engagements de l’entreprise TATA qui s’était engagée à redéfinir son projet si une menace environnementale était avérée. C’est pourtant chose faite mais TATA s’obstine et ne veut rien entendre !”

Chaque année, entre les mois de décembre et d’avril, des milliers de tortues olivâtres en provenance d’Australie et des Philippines viennent se reproduire dans cette zone. Elles parcourent ainsi des milliers de kilomètres pour atteindre les plages de Gahirmatha et venir se reproduire à l’endroit où elles sont nées. Mais les travaux menés par la construction du port pourraient bien empêcher la nidification de cette espèce déjà menacée. Le taux de mortalité des tortues olivâtres ne cesse d’augmenter au large des côtes de l’Orissa.

Source greenpeace

Comments

[Aakansha]

Some shareholders of Tata Steel brought up the concerns raised by Greenpeace about the impact of the Dhamra Port on the nesting habitat of Olive Ridley Turtles at Tata Steel’s 102nd AGM in Mumbai
on the 27th August’09 and requested the Chairman of Tata Steel, Mr Ratan Tata, to discuss the Dhamra Port issue with them.

Mr Tata responded immediately to their concerns and said that my invitation is “ to you Admiral Ramdas”  and anybody else who would be interested and Mr Muthuraman would make the arrangements
for you all to take the time to satisfy yourselves in terms of what we are doing.
Know more: Response to GPs activity on Websites

[vkarole]

tanks

[Meghna]

Tata Steel has always maintained a strong focus on environment sustainability and environment management in all its operations. We have seen that in the issues regarding the construction of a deep-sea port at Dhamra in Orissa, the Company has been forthcoming in sharing the concerns of activists and ever willing to implement practical means of mitigating any adverse impact of port construction on the marine eco-system in that area. The Company has held at least eight to nine sessions of meetings with Greenpeace and other environmental organizations in the matter of Dhamra Port. Tata Steel has made it abundantly clear that it is willing to have further discussions in order to alleviate any unnecessary doubts that the dissenters may yet nurture against the project. Here is an outline of events as they happened till date. The JV agreement with L&T to build a port at Dhamra was signed by Tata Steel in 2004. At the very onset, discussions were initiated with WWF- India, BNHS, Mr Kartik Shankar, Mr Bittu Sehagal and others.The company was duly concerned with the objections raised by different environmental organizations and agreed not to begin construction work till a detailed study was complete. Responding wholeheartedly to the demands of activists, Tata Steel agreed for a proposal for a further study of the impact of the port on turtles and on the marine and island eco-system. In 2005, BNHS and WWF-India, with an unprecedented suddenness, reversed their stand and refused to conduct the assessment study as they had promised. However, the organisations did not provide any reasons for their turncoat attitude. In March 06, in an address to ED, Greenpeace India, the Chairman of TATA Sons made it clear that commitments were meant to be honoured at both ends. The Company had fulfilled their promise by withholding construction work for the proposed study, which never actually took off. The MD of Tata Steel also met Greenpeace officials in their Bangalore office. In January 2008 a meeting was subsequently conducted between Greenpeace and Tata Steel and a list of concerns was presented by Greenpeace with regard to Dhamra Port. DPCL on 8th March 2008, gave a detailed and comprehensive explanation to all the points raised by Greenpeace. Subsequent objections were allayed on 3rd May 2008. Further on 23rd October 2008, MD, Tata Steel along with senior executives of Tata Steel, L&T and DPCL met Greenpeace, BNHS, WPSI, Wild Society of Orissa, Sanctuary Asia and other environmental organizations to discuss the concerns and the way forward on the subject with regard to Dhamra Port.A team of Company Executives and environment experts visited Bhitarakanika National Park, Gahirmatha Marine Sanctuary and the Dhamra Port site on February 2009, supervising the ongoing dredging operations.  On fourth meeting on 20th Feb 2009 in Kolkata, Tata Steel, L&T and DPCL agreed to conduct the additional biological impact assessment in close collaboration with NGOs’ of environmental organizations team led by a mutually agreed upon Scientists team. However the NGOs’ in a further instance of unreasonableness, insisted upon complete cessation of on-going dredging operation of Dhamra Port even before the commencement of study. However DPCL, Tata Steel and L&T team showed it preparedness to adjust the schedule of works including dredging to facilitate the study after due recommendation by the Scientists team. The 102nd AGM of Tata Steel had been attended by a number of Greenpeace activists who happen to be shareholders of the Company as well. The AGM highlighted Tata Steel’s interests in further conference with Greenpeace in the matter of the port in addition to an invitation to activists to visit the port site yet again. From the sequence of events, it is absolutely clear that the only thing that Greenpeace wants is to prolong the situation of deadlock in the matter of Dhamra Port. Perhaps, due to a lack of other valid issues on their agenda, Greenpeace is carrying on with a stance of stiffness, lest they have to give in to valid scientific reasoning. The only deduction that may be drawn from Greenpeace’s lack of willingness in discussion is that they have lost their own conviction long before and fear that they will have to admit it as such in an open forum.  It is indeed a very sorry state of affairs in which progress is kept at stake and the environment is being used as a pawn by people who profess themselves to be friends of the environment.

[vkarole]

thanks

[TIna]

Greenpeace, the professed global environment campaign organization, in an instance of unmatched brazenness, falsified the report prepared by North Orissa University on Biodiversity Assessment of Dhamra Estuary. As a result, a group of forty MPs wrote to the Ministry Of Environment and Forests to call on the bluff of Greenpeace. The Orissa Govt. therefore initiated action against Greenpeace proposing a ban on all its activities in the state. However, after the 102nd Annual General Meeting of Tata Steel in Mumbai, Greenpeace unabashedly has started their tricks once again. This time it has managed to rope in Retd Admiral Ramdas and his wife Mrs. Lalita Ramdas on the issue of Dhamra port but as far as scientific reasoning goes, the issues raised are totally unfounded. We can just hope that the visit of the Ramdas’ to the site will help to stop meaningless agitations and clear the situation once and for all.

[vkarole]

tanks

[Jessica]

"Expressing anguish over the Green Peace movement's single point agenda on stopping work on Dhamra Port project in Orissa, Tata Steel Chairman Ratan Tata reiterated that the company would in no way take up any project hazardous to Olive Ridley Turtles" 
Mr Ratan Tata Chairman of TATA Steel to Greenpeace activists: "I invite you for a discussion and a visit to the port site in Dhamra."
Tata proved that Tata was always willing to have a best solution for country's industrial & economical development and they were always ready for solutions.
http://steelguru.com/news/index/2009/08/29/MTA5MDgw/TATA_Steel_invites_Greenpeace_activists_for_talks_on_Dhamra_Port.html
http://www.indopia.in/India-usa-uk-news/latest-news/661058/Business/4/20/4
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-100917.html
"Expressing anguish over the Green Peace movement's single point agenda on stopping work on Dhamra Port project in Orissa, Tata Steel Chairman Ratan Tata reiterated that the company would in no way take up any project hazardous to Olive Ridley Turtles" 

Mr Ratan Tata Chairman of TATA Steel to Greenpeace activists: "I invite you for a discussion and a visit to the port site in Dhamra."

Tata proved that Tata was always willing to have a best solution for country's industrial & economical development and they were always ready for solutions.

http://steelguru.com/news/index/2009/08/29/MTA5MDgw/TATA_Steel_invites_Greenpeace_activists_for_talks_on_Dhamra_Port.html

http://www.indopia.in/India-usa-uk-news/latest-news/661058/Business/4/20/4

http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-100917.html

[vkarole]

Thanks

[Aakash]

Light and lighting are crucial for any industrial project, both during construction and the operational phase. IUCN lighting experts and DPCL are also taking care of implementing lighting safeguards, which would also be turtle safe lighting and would be low pressure sodium vapor lights which have been proven by research to be the least disorienting to turtle hatchlings. 
Source: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=296928&id=168851070709
Light and lighting are crucial for any industrial project, both during construction and the operational phase. IUCN lighting experts and DPCL are also taking care of implementing lighting safeguards, which would also be turtle safe lighting and would be low pressure sodium vapor lights which have been proven by research to be the least disorienting to turtle hatchlings. 

Source: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=296928&id=168851070709

[vkarole]

traduction

La lumière et l'éclairage sont cruciaux pour n'importe quel projet industriel, tant pendant la construction que la phase opérationnelle. IUCN l'éclairage des experts et DPCL s'occupent aussi de
l'exécution s'allumant(éclairant) des sauvegardes, qui seraient aussi l'éclairage de coffre-fort de tortue et seraient les feux de vapeur de sodium à basse pression qui ont été prouvés par la
recherche pour être les moindres désorientés aux oisillons de tortue. Source : http: // www.facebook.com/album.php ? Aid=296928*id=168851070709
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