Close
Contact Us
Help
Login
Register
0
Selected
Invert selection
Deselect all
Deselect all
Click here to refresh results
Click here to refresh results
Go to Login page
Hide details
Add to lightbox
Add to cart
Get link
Keywords
Actions and protests
Chemical industry
Day
Fertilizer production
Greenpeace activists
KWCI (GPI)
Marine pollution
Oceans (campaign title)
Outdoors
Outflow pipes
Sea dumping
Toxic waste
Toxics (campaign title)
Two people
Pipeblock at Kemira in Rotterdam Harbour
Greenpeace activists block outflow pipe of fertilizer producer Kemira in the Rotterdam harbour.
In original language:
Toxicactie Blokkeren Pijp bij Kemira in Rotterdamse Haven
Greenpeace actievoerders blokkeren lozingspijp van kunstmestbedrijf Kemira in de Rotterdamse haven.
Unique identifier:
GP01OTS
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
17/06/1989
Locations:
Europe, West Europe
,
Netherlands
,
Rotterdam
,
Rotterdam Harbour
Credit line:
© Greenpeace / Lorette Dorreboom
Ranking:
★★★★★★ (B)
Containers
Shoot:
Blockade of Outflow Pipe at Kemira in Rotterdam
A week after the presentation of the international North Sea campaign the Greenpeace ship Beluga and two inflatables stop temporarily the controversial discharges by one of the two fertilizer producers (Kemira and Windmill) in the Rotterdam harbour. Greenpeace activists block one of the two discharge pipelines of Kemira. Kemira discharges 1.2m tonnes of gypsum sludge per annum - this contains great amounts of heavy metals (cadmium and mercury), radioactive materials (radon) and nutrients such as phosphates and nitrates. Kemira and Windmill are the biggest dischargers of cadmium and phosphates in the Netherlands and they pose a direct threat to the environment of the river and North Sea. Greenpeace demands a ban on the discharge of gypsum sludge.
Conceptually similar