Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-11-21-Speech-4-175"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-11-21"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:The oil tanker 'Prestige' wrecked off the coast of Galicia2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20021121.7.4-175"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-11-21-Speech-4-1762
lpv:speaker	lp:Bart Staes2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Anders gaan arbeiden, leven en vrijen (2002-09-23--2004-01-05)3 member; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 chair; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; CONT (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Temporary committee on foot and mouth disease (2002-01-17--2002-12-17)3 member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees and Delegation for relations with Tadjikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I am speaking here on behalf of Mr Dhaenen, my Flemish and Green colleague, who is a member of the Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism. First of all, I should like to put on record my and our solidarity with the people in Galicia. This is a social tragedy for those who live by the sea and tourism. The true scale of this economic and ecological disaster is starting to dawn ever more clearly. A true catastrophe is unfolding before our eyes. Galicia's green coast is gradually turning black. The indignation is growing by the hour. Everyone is asking how this is possible after all those previous disasters. The disaster involving the is still fresh in our memories and the wreck of the in 1978 awakened an environmental awareness in many of my generation. Every time a disaster strikes, we are faced with the disastrous consequences of negligence. It is a disgrace that the agency for maritime safety is not to be launched until some time next year. It is a disgrace that port control should only be scant and, in many cases, implemented in a questionable manner. It is a disgrace that single-hulled wrecks should still be bobbing their way around the oceans and that they should take their course past vulnerable regions. There is something fundamentally wrong with our transport sector. I would quote Mr Rijnigerd, a former director of the Rotterdam-based recovery firm Smit, who stated that ‘trying to transport an oil shipment as cheaply as possible from Latvia to Gibraltar in an obsolete and poorly maintained tanker is asking for trouble’. There are therefore bad apples that need to be removed. They are sharks that slip through the net. However, we should admit that the net that is supposed to catch them is yet to be put in place. We as Greens support more transport by water, but those highways at sea should not be accessible to cowboys and environmental criminals. We would argue in favour of less transport, less use of fossil fuels and more involvement by a greater, fully-fledged, ecological European Union."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Amoco Cadiz"1 "Erika"1

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