[nettime-fr] SC Shows Red Flag to Clemenceau

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Source :  liste arkitectindia

http://www.ibnlive.com/article.php?id=5283&section_id=3

SC shows red flag to Clemenceau
CNN-IBN
Updated 1412 hrs IST (+GMT 5:30), 13.02.06

New Delhi: Finally, the verdict is out on the
controversial toxic 
French 
warship ship.

The Supreme Court has said that the decommissioned
warship Clemenceau 
cannot enter Indian waters though the bar on the entry
is only till 
February 17.

SC has also banned any demonstration or articles for
or against the 
ship 
and said that such demonstartions amounted to trail by
the media and 
will be viewed as a contempt of the Court.

In announcing its verdict the Apex Court has rejected
the report of its 
own monitering committee, which said that the ship can
be allowed into 
the Indian waters.

The Court said that the monitering committee was not a
group of experts 
who could decide on the toxic wastes that were on the
ship.

Centre has been directed to form a new committee
comprising of navy 
experts who are well versed in the construction and
destruction of 
warships.

It said that the committee should have about four to
five members 
preferably people who have worked with the dockyards.

"We want to know what were the specifications of the
ship then (in 1961 
when it was made)," Judge SH Kapadia told a hearing on
whether the 
warship should be allowed to be scrapped at a shipyard
in western 
Gujarat state.

The court asked for the appointment of a body
comprising retired naval 
officers to examine the contents of the ship and how
it was 
constructed.

"We would like to have views of the ministry of
defence," said another 
judge, Justice Arijit Pasayat.

The court said it would need the information by its
next meeting, on 
Friday.

On Sunday CNN-IBN had reported that seven out of 11
members of the 
monitering committee were in favour of allowing the
ship to be 
dismantled in India.

Members of the commission last week admitted the group
was split over 
whether to allow the ship to be broken up at Alang, in
Gujarat, and had 
submitted two reports to the Supreme Court in New
Delhi.

France says the vessel is carrying 45 tonnes of
cancer-causing asbestos 
insulation.

But a firm which partially decontaminated it says the
amount could be 
as 
high as 1,000 tonnes.

Activists argue most sea-going ships end their service
at ship-breaking 
yards in India, Bangladesh, China and Pakistan, where
they are cut up 
by 
unprotected workers, taking a grim toll on human
health and the 
environment.

Some members of the commission said they had no
objection to the ship 
being dismantled in India "provided certain conditions
are in place," 
said group member and scientist Claude Alvares.

"Seven said 'Yes,' three said 'No' and one was absent,
and hence two 
reports reflecting both views went to the Supreme
Court," Alvares said.

"There's no conclusive opinion and hence the two
separate reports," 
said 
another SCMC member, Sukumar Devotta, head of the
state-run National 
Environmental Research Institute.

But many environmentalists feel that asbestos-carrying
French carrier 
is 
a huge environmental hazard.

(With inputs from AFP)

Source :  arkitectindia

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autres sources en français

http://permanent.nouvelobs.com/etranger/20060213.OBS6355.html
http://today.reuters.fr/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-02-13T104742Z_01_MAN336123_RTRIDST_0_OFRTP-FRANCE-INDE-CLEMENCEAU-20060213.XML		
http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=358974




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