The equivalent of the volume of a hundred Tour Montparnasse was dumped in this open sea dump
For 50 years, ALTEO alumina plant located in the town of Gardanne and belonging to the aluminum giant PECHINEY rejects its red mud in the open Mediterranean Sea.
An emissary spills a poison filled with heavy metals off the bay of Cassis
Far from the eyes, the toxic discharges are dumped at the bottom of the Cassidaigne canyon, off the Cassis bay, through an emissary that travels the seabed to ‘vomit’ its poison stuffed with metals heavy metals (Mercury, Arsenic, Uranium, Titanium …).
Already in 1960, Alain Bombard and Paul Ricard saw their warning suffocated by local conflicts of interest. The result today is the equivalent of the volume of a hundred Tour Montparnasse that was dumped in this dump ‘open sea’, brewed by the currents that will spread this slow death on all this beautiful coast where we dive, swim and where we feed on seafood…
Moreover, since 2012, the area of ââthe rejection is in the heart of the Marine Park of the Calanques de Marseille!
The emission of liquid discharges even more assimilable by marine organisms is allowed
This authorization ends, administratively, on December 31, 2015.
If our Minister of the Environment, SĂ©golĂšne Royal, has been good at stopping solid discharges, however, it is about to authorize the worst: the emission of liquid discharges. Because in these liquid discharges, pollutants are certainly diluted, but still present in quantity and in a form even more dispersable and assimilable by marine organisms.
At a time when, and rightly, ships are being forced not to dump at sea, where ports are engaging in environmental initiatives, where the benefits of coastal treatment plants are being seen, we dare to authorize a Classified Facility for the Environment to continue untreated discharges at sea (contrary to the decree governing these classified activities).
Send a letter to the chairman of the public inquiry committee
Divers want to make their voices heard! A public inquiry is in progress and ends on September 25th. Of course, to protect himself from a tidal wave via the internet and social networks, the Prefect did not allow e-mails. So, to express yourself, you have to either go to the local offices or send a letter to the chairman of the public inquiry committee.
Longitude 181 therefore calls for you urgently to grab PDF mail to download on its website and send it from where you are, so as to show the authorities that no border stops the family divers, as no border stops marine pollution.
