31-08-2022, 08:51 PM
Noticias:
The "toxic boat" crossed Canarian waters, a few kilometers from Fuerteventura as "Pedro for his house"
Since last Friday he has been wandering through the international corridor between two of the largest islands of the Archipelago such as Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura, and now, as the Efe agency attests, there is no record of his destination, given that the Ottoman country does not want to know anything about such an environmental problem.
The "toxic boat" crossed Canarian waters, a few kilometers from Fuerteventura as "Pedro for his house"
Since last Friday he has been wandering through the international corridor between two of the largest islands of the Archipelago such as Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura, and now, as the Efe agency attests, there is no record of his destination, given that the Ottoman country does not want to know anything about such an environmental problem.
NGOs from countries such as Belgium and the United States warn of the radioactive waste that the ship keeps through the cadmium paint that it intended to protect from such nuclear tests, not to mention the considerable tons of asbestos that also remain on the ship in question, as well as heavy materials that, in practice, they fail to comply with all kinds of anti-pollution treaties in terms of maritime transport, advances Diario de Avisos.
As verified in the AIS maritime transit system (which yesterday detailed how the ship, dragged by a Dutch-flagged tugboat called ALP Centre, sailed yesterday still near Lanzarote), the official destination of such a controversial vessel was the Turkish port of Aliaga, but that country has annulled the permit once granted for the Brazilian aircraft carrier Sao Paulo to be scrapped in Turkish shipyards when it does not receive the mandatory reports on the presence of toxic materials, the Turkish government reported. "The decision has been made to cancel the conditional permit granted to the ship NAE Sao Paulo. Under this decision, permission will not be given for it to enter Turkish waters," said a statement released by Turkish Environment Minister Murat Kurum.
Helplessness in the Canary Islands
Government sources acknowledged yesterday to Diario de Avisos that the Spanish authorities, tied hands and feet because the Canarian waters remain unprotected without having the protection of a state given the rules established in this regard by the Montego Bay Convention (Jamaica) held in 1982 and which entered into force a decade later.
Of course, the monitoring of the passage of the old French aircraft carrier resold to Brazil and today out of use that crosses this weekend the Canarian waters towed by a Dutch flag vessel contracted for this purpose and that does not comply with any environmental regulation on international maritime transport is constant by the Spanish port authorities in the Canary Islands, however much consolation it may be in case of any incident.
What is evident is that the ship is still heading towards the Mediterranean Sea, and unofficial sources point to the Greek island of Kios. That, if the international regulations in this regard are not complied with before, of course.
The ship's transport now defies a court order from Brazil's Federal District Court and, according to multiple activist groups, has been exported in violation of the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal, as well as the Barcelona Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment and the Mediterranean Coastal Region.
According to environmental organizations, the movement from São Paulo from Brazil to Turkey is also illegal, as it violates the 1996 Izmir Protocol on Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Waste and the Barcelona Convention, which does not allow the entry of this waste into the Mediterranean Sea unless it is destined for an EU country for recycling or disposal.
The export of the ship also violates the Basel Convention, since Brazil did not recognize the Izmir Protocol, which imposes a ban on Turkey and did not notify or receive the consent of the possible states that it will encounter during its trip, these are, Spain, Morocco and the United Kingdom (by the Strait of Gibraltar). In addition, NGOs claim that the IHM (Hazardous Materials Inventory) is suspected of being underestimated.