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The Environment
An in-depth expose of the Prestige oil spill off Spain in November 2002. The Frontline website provides a valuable educational resource on Flag of Convenience, including profiles of the worst offenders in the world shipping industry, a history of how Flags of Convenience were set up to avoid prohibition in the US in the 1920s to their bleak record on tax invasion, drug trafficking, gun running and terrorism. A joint Frontline and the Center for Investigative Reporting in the US produced in January, 2004. ... Ships of ShameRustbuckets, coffin ships, casino ships, Ships of Shame. These are just some of the names that describe the growing fleet of Flag of Convenience vessels polluting our oceans and threatening our coastline... Slick, Slop, Slap: Crude Oil won't protect your skin from cancerCrude oil does not protect your skin from sun cancer. Protect our surf Blockout plans to expose our coast to pollution... Green BansUranium exports, French nuclear testing in the Pacific, the destruction of the world's rain forests, dumping of toxic waste, substandard shipping and pollution of our marine life, you name it,the Maritime Union has taken a stand... Greenpeace & others join MUA shipping campaign:Protest World Heritage Commission CairnsProtest World Heritage Commission Cairns... Ravaged: MUA joins campaign to protect our coast (June, 2000)The MUA has been invited to join an environmental campaign to protect the coastal communities and coastline from exploitation by multinationals... Surf Campaign: (June, 2000)Maritime workers hosted surfing competitions in Coolangatta, Queensland and Wollongong, NSW in June. The events were also a venue for the union campaign to raise public awareness about the silent invasion of the Australian coast by substandard, foreign shipping... FOC: What's on the recordFlags of Convenience really took off after WWII & have plagued the international shipping industry ever since... Freeport mine: the Cairns disputeInternational Purveyors, the company allied with the Howard Government in its war on the Maritime Union, is a front for Freeport McMoRan, infamous for its alleged desecration of Papuan sacred sites, environmental and human rights abuses... Dumping at Sea: Australian flag ships have a clean recordThe incidences of oil slicks reported to originate from tankers washing their holds at sea are numerous and increasing... Who cares: About our coastal environmentThe following people are among those who have been concerned enough to sign their support for Humane and fair conditions for seafarers, Retention of cabotage to restrict "ships of shame" carrying our domestic trade, Protection of our coastal environment... Coffin Ship: Toxic graveyards exposed: unions join forces with GreenpeaceRust buckets, ships of shame, coffin ships - those that do not take seafarers to a watery grave, end up on fetid beaches like in Alang, India, where the exploitation of labour & the pollution of our marine environment continues ashore; where 35,000 men, women and children labour by hand, stripping a vessel's carcass back to its iron skeleton and asbestos guts... Sydney Oil Spill: crew of convenience implicated in desecration of Sydney HarbourThe MUA predicted a harbour oil spill a poster as far back as 1996. In August 1999 our worst fears were realised... |
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