The Seine Valley, a polluted valley? « It is a sewer with open sky» said in 1979 the medical toxicologist Paul Poli. Find him interviewed in this file and discover a clean-up operation of the Seine in Carrière sous Poissy and a mini-oil spill near the Pont de Tancarville.
Environment, biodiversity and heritage, elected officials and scientists agree that the banks of the Seine are an area to be protected. An area that now covers some 160 kms. Explanations on these rehabilitation and renaturalisation projects. Interviews with Christian LÉVÊQUE, President of the Scientific Committee of the Groupement d'intérêt public Seine Aval, Claire BERTOLONE, Research Officer at the Environmental Department of the Grand Port Maritime of Rouen and Nicolas MAYER-ROSSIGNOL, Regional Councillor and President of the Seine-Aval Public Interest Group. This is his first television.
The valley of the Seine between Mantes and Poissy: it is a real concentration of polluting factories, big smoking chimneys, highway... the seine lined with factories, railways, but also houses of dwellings. Interview Paul POLI (medical toxicologist): "The Seine Valley is an open sewer". Various polluting materials such as lead, asbestos and carbon are released. It describes the evils caused by the inhabitants.
Report. In Carrières-sous-Poissy, in Yvelines, an association has just filed a complaint against the State for wrongful failure, accused of doing nothing to end and clear a wild dump, the largest in France, located close to homes and which has been growing steadily over the past three years. Commentary on factual images and archive images alternating with interviews with Anthony EFFROY, of the association Rives de Seine Nature Environnement, and Maître Alexandre FARO, lawyer of the association.
"Clean the World" Day, at Carrière-sous-poissy. Intense and bi-annual cleaning of the Seine thanks to the association that would like to have a few people for this operation. Interview with Edouard FEINSTEIN, of the association "organ of ecological rescue" which regrets the lack of financial assistance of the State and Marinio ROCHA, of the association "young people for nature", regrets him, the lack of human investment: "People are a little withered...they lack seriousness".
Mini-marée noire près du pont de Tancarville, en Normandie, sur l'estuaire du Havre, dont une fuite de fuel de l'entreprise des ciments Lafarge serait à l'origine. Interviews Jean-Pierre Jacques (comité de sauvegarde de la faune sauvage) et Francis Rémy (directeur des ciments Lafarge).