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Access blockade actions
Actions and protests
Cargo ships
Chaining actions
Day
Fertilizer production
Greenpeace activists
Greenpeace inflatables
KWCI (GPI)
Marine pollution
Oceans (campaign title)
Outdoors
Sea dumping
Small group of people
Toxic waste
Toxics (campaign title)
Toxic Dumping Action in Bay of the Seine
Action against phosphogypsum 'yellow sludge' dumping off north French coast.
Unique identifier:
GP010TC
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
15/06/1983
Locations:
Alpine Countries
,
France
,
North Sea
Credit line:
© Greenpeace / Pierre Gleizes
Ranking:
★★★★★★ (B)
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Toxic Dumping Action in Bay of the Seine
Action against phosphogypsum 'yellow sludge' dumping off north French coast. Phosphogypsum is the gypsum formed as a by-product of processing phosphate ore into fertilizer with sulfuric acid.
The MV Sirius and flotilla fishing boats harassed dump barges containing yellow sludge at the Seine estuary. One dumpbarge was sprayed with paint, occupied and immobilized by activists. The Sirius was arrested by the French Navy and escorted out of French territorial waters.
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