Erika shipwreck: appeal proceedings

Erika shipwreck: appeal proceedings

Ten years after the ecological disaster, the oil giant is once again before the courts with five other defendants... Faced with them, many local authorities who want to obtain greater compensation and who especially want the notion of ecological harm to be confirmed. Comments on images of illustration, archives and interviews. At the courthouse, Jacques AUXIETTE, President PS of the Loire region, wants the notion of ecological harm to be enshrined. Allain BOUGRAIN-DUBOURG, president of the League for the Protection of Birds, also mentions the recognition of ecological harm. At Le Croisic, Christian HAZEBROUCK, vice-president "Friends of the Oil Spill Collectives", remembers an apocalyptic vision. Véronique LEFEUVRE, a mangrove worker at Guérande, explains that there is still concern about a possible new oil spill.

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File : Sinking of the Erika

Publication date : 5 October 2009