#environmental_health

#France's Blatant Disregard for the Health of its People – How the Government and Lobby Groups have been Pushing Diesel Cars
▻http://multinationales.org/France-s-Blatant-Disregard-for-the-Health-of-its-People-How-the-Gov

The large majority of France’s car fleet runs on diesel, despite its lamentable health effects and the enormous costs involved for society. But who is to blame? Since the eighties, political authorities, industrial figures and transport professionals have persistently backed the diesel engine even though its emissions have always been recognized as extremely harmful – and even carcinogenic. And the evidence continues to mount against it. But the French government recently announced an (...)

#Investigations

/ #Automotive_Industry, France, #PSA_Peugeot_Citroën, #Renault, #Lobbying, #environmental_impact, #influence, #regulations_and_norms, Environmental (...)

#Environmental_Health
“►http://www.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/IMG/pdf/ED81.pdf”
“►http://www.senat.fr/commission/enquete/cout_economique_et_financier_de_la_pollution_de_lair.html#c617158”
“►http://www.airparif.asso.fr/_pdf/fiches-polluants-2014.pdf”
“►http://www.liberation.fr/terre/2013/03/04/corinne-lepage-le-lobby-automobile-a-detricote-la-loi-sur-l-air_886185”
“►http://www.france5.fr/emission/5089153dbb94781404003039/50891541bb94781404003430”

Are the Chemical Industry’s Interests Taking Precedence Over People’s Lives in Europe?
▻http://multinationales.org/Are-the-Chemical-Industry-s-Interests-Taking-Precedence-Over-People

The #european_union has still not regulated usage of endocrine disruptors, chemical substances with colossal health impacts utilized in many common consumer products. Yet endocrine disruptors are the source of many disorders: birth defects, cancers and obesity. This regulatory delay, which has just been condemned by the European justice system, owes nothing to accident. The chemical industries - manufacturers of pesticides and plastics - are #Lobbying intensively and hamper any serious (...)

#Investigations

/ #Chemicals, Lobbying, #Environmental_Health, #regulations_and_norms, #new_technologies, european union, (...)

#influence
“▻http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34711-in-europe-are-the-chemical-industry-s-interests-taking-precedence-o”
“▻http://www.ourstolenfuture.org/consensus/wingspread1.htm”
“►http://www.who.int/ceh/publications/endocrine/en”
“►http://press.endocrine.org/doi/full/10.1210/er.2009-0002”
“▻http://www.figo.org/sites/default/files/uploads/News/Final%20PDF_8462.pdf”
“▻http://www.cefic.org”
“►http://www.ecpa.eu”
“▻https://www.cosmeticseurope.eu”
“▻http://ec.europa.eu/environment/chemicals/endocrine/pdf/sota_edc_final_report.pdf”
“▻http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/aug/03/ttip-what-why-angry-transatlantic-trade-investment-partnership-guide”

Personal Data : What if Tomorrow Your Insurance Company Controlled Your Lifestyle ?
▻http://multinationales.org/Personal-Data-What-if-Tomorrow-Your-Insurance-Company-Controlled-Yo

Our personal information is targeted not only by benevolent or malevolent espionage agencies. Insurance companies have launched a real race in attempting to collect as much information as possible about your lifestyle. Social networks, the “Internet of Things” [a proposed development of the internet in which everyday objects have network connectivity, allowing them to send and receive data] and leisure applications on smartphones are sources of information about the state of your health and (...)

#Investigations

/ #Axa, #Allianz, #human_rights, #ethics, #privacy, #Environmental_Health

« ▻http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34880-what-if-tomorrow-your-insurance-company-controlled-your-lifestyle »

In Alberta and Downstream, the Heavy Toll of the Oil Sands Industry on #water and the Environment
▻http://multinationales.org/In-Alberta-and-downstream-the-heavy-toll-of-the-oil-sands-industry-

In Alberta, Canadian and international oil companies, including #Shell and #Total, develop oil sands deposits at a frantic pace. Despite the current oil price slump, they still hope to triple production by 2030. While there is much talk of its greenhouse gas emissions, the oil sands industry also has heavy, lesser-known impacts on water resources and #biodiversity. The consequences of excessive water extraction and pollution are beginning to be felt downstream, perhaps all the way to the (...)

#Investigations

/ A la une, #Extractive_Industries, #Canada, Shell, Total, #Extractive_Industries, #Fossil_fuels, biodiversity, #climate_change, #local_communities, water, #environmental_impact, #social_impact, #extractive_industries, #regulations_and_norms, #Environmental_Health, (...)

#energy

Cleaner Oil Sands? #Shell and Veolia’s Carmon Creek Project
▻http://multinationales.org/Cleaner-Oil-Sands-Shell-and-Veolia-s-Carmon-Creek-Project

Shell and Veolia, an oil and gas major and a #water company, have joined forces to design a new, ’ecological’ oil sands plant at Carmon Creek, on the Peace River in Alberta, #Canada. According to them, this new plant will have almost zero impact on water resources. But many experts are skeptical, and there is little detail about their exact plans. Meanwhile, the starting date for the plant seems to have been postponed until at least 2019. Second part of Edward Struzik’s report on oil sands and (...)

#Investigations

/ #Water_and_Sanitation, #Extractive_Industries, Canada, Shell, #Veolia_environnement, #Fossil_fuels, water, #shale_gas, #environmental_impact, #extractive_industries, #regulations_and_norms, #Environmental_Health, #transparency, (...)

#energy

Synthetic Biology : Life reconstructed by engineers and multinationals
▻http://multinationales.org/Synthetic-Biology-Life

According to its proposents, synthetic biology would seem to be leading us into a brighter future, full of promises of better medicines, anti-pollution bacteria and synthetic fuels. But whilst it continues to attract investments from the largest global companies in the biotechnology, #Energy and agribusiness sectors, the use of lab-built DNA and of patented gene factories to produce life at industrial scale raises many questions. As the first fully computer-designed organisms are just (...)

#Investigations

/ Food & Agribusiness, Energy, #Pharma, #France, #United_States, #Michelin, #Total, #Sanofi, #Green_Economy, #Amyris, #new_technologies, #intellectual_property, #Environmental_Health, regulations and (...)

#Food_&_Agribusiness #regulations_and_norms
« ►http://www.genopole.fr/Bioparc-les-projets-structurants.html »
« ►http://www.sanofi.com/Images/32474_20130411_ARTEMISININE_fr.pdf »
« ►http://www.etcgroup.org »
« ►http://www.foe.org/news/archives/2012-03-global-coalition-calls-oversight-synthetic-biology »
« ►http://cache.media.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/file/Rapport_Biologie_de_synthese/58/5/L2_BIOLOGIE_DESYNTHeSE_version_finale_web2_202585.pdf »
« ►http://biobricks.org/about-foundation »
« ►https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank »
« ►http://www.issb.genopole.fr/Research/teams »
« ►http://www.lefigaro.fr/sciences/2012/06/22/01008-20120622ARTFIG00775-faut-il-avoir-peur-de-la-biologie-synthetique.php »
« ►http://www.lapaillasse.org »
« ►http://www.lemonde.fr/le-monde-2/article/2009/09/04/biohackers-les-bricoleurs-d-adn_1235563_1004868.html »
« ►http://www.ensembl.org/Homo_sapiens/Info/Index »
« ►http://2013.igem.org/Team:INSA_Toulouse »
« ►http://biologie-synthese.cnam.fr/historique »
« ►http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/13/rap-off/i4354.asp »
« ►http://wallpapersus.com/dna-nanotech-creative-design »
« ►http://www.piecesetmaindoeuvre.com/spip.php?page=resume&id_article=395 »
« ►http://total.com/fr/energies-savoir-faire/energies-renouvelables/biomasse/projets-realisations/amyris »
« ▻http://sciencescitoyennes.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Fiche_FSC_Artémisinine.pdf »

Mount Polley mine spill : an accident waiting to happen ?
▻http://multinationales.org/Mount-Polley-mine-spill-an

A enormous tailings pond containing waste from a nearby gold and copper mine collapsed last month in British Columbia (B.C.), releasing billions of litres of wastewater and toxic sludge into nearby lakes and streams. A local state of emergency was called following the incident, and a temporary ban put on using #water from the area. But was this just an unfortunate accident, or the inevitable result of #Canada's increasingly lax and mining-friendly environmental regulation? The spill, which (...)

#News

/ #Extractive_Industries, Canada, #Imperial_Metals, #Extractive_Industries, #local_communities, water, #environmental_impact, #influence, #regulations_and_norms, Environmental (...)

#Environmental_Health
« ►http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/mount-polley-mine-tailings-pond-breach-followed-years-of-government-warnings-1.2 »
« ►http://www.miningwatch.ca/blog/catastrophic-tailings-spill-mount-polley-mine »
« ►http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/bc-interior-health-partially-rescinds-water-restrictions-tsx-iii-193778 »
« ►https://news.vice.com/article/the-mount-polley-mine-disaster-has-produced-a-mysterious-waxy-blue-substa »
« ►http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/council-canadians/2014/09/mount-polley-imperial-metals-and-government-focus-on-coveri »
« ►https://www.facebook.com/UBCIC/posts/821691411194771?fref=nf »
« ►http://business.financialpost.com/2014/08/05/imperial-metals-shares-tailings-spill/?__federated=1 »
« ►http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Imperial+Metals+insurance+likely+enough+collapse+cleanup/10105163/story.html »
« ►http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/jul/09/canada-stephen-harper-revolt-scientists »
« ►http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/david-suzuki/canada-mining-industry_b_5718889.html »
« ►http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/aug/13/mount-polley-mine-spill-british-columbia-canada »
« ►http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Major+Imperial+Metals+shareholder+held+private+fundraiser+Clark+election/10102715/story.html »
« ►http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/mount-polley-mine-spill-minister-reveals-plans-for-2-reviews-1.2739488 »
« ►http://www.greenparty.bc.ca/mt_polley »
« ▻http://nationtalk.ca/story/sierra-club-bc-comments-on-mount-polley-disaster »

Toxic pollution: chemical giants free from all liability?
▻http://multinationales.org/Toxic-pollution-chemical-giants

‘Manufacturers must answer for the poisoning caused by PCBs!’ demands the Coalition against #Bayer Dangers, a German organisation that has fought against the abuse of the German chemical multinational corporation for 35 years. This article was originally published in French. Translation: Jocelyn Timperley. PCBs – polychlorinated biphenyls – are industrial products used from the 1930s up to the 1980s in transformers, seals, paints and flooring. They are highly chlorinated organic compounds, and (...)

#News

/ #Germany, #Monsanto, Bayer, #Chemicals, #environmental_impact, #regulations_and_norms, #Environmental_Health, #occupational_health_and_safety, #corporate_social_responsibility, corporate legal (...)

#corporate_legal_responsibility
“▻http://www.cbgnetwork.de/4.html”
“►http://www.bayer.com/en/asm_2014_countermotions_en.pdfx”

How #Areva lets its workers die in #Niger
▻http://www.multinationales.org/How-Areva-lets-its-workers-die-in

French people get light and heating thanks, in part, to the work of hundreds of miners in Niger, who have spent 20 to 30 years of their lives extracting uranium for nuclear company Areva. The uranium is then sent to #France to serve as fuel for the 58 French nuclear reactors. These miners suffer and die because of the effects of radiation exposure, in an atmosphere of total indifference. Any form of acknowledgement of their ills as occupational diseases seems out of the question. How long (...)

#Investigations

/ Niger, Areva, #Extractive_Industries, #Nuclear_Energy, #Extractive_Industries, #Occupational_Health_and_Safety, #social_impact, #environmental_impact, #corporate_legal_responsibility, #corporate_social_responsibility, #occupational_health_and_safety, #Environmental_Health, (...)

#work-related_cancers #Energy
▻http://niger.areva.com/EN/niger-174/the-health-and-safety-of-workers-and-the-local-population.html
▻http://www.sst-nucleaire-chimie.org
►http://www.asso-sherpa.org
▻http://niger.areva.com/niger/liblocal/docs/F_AREVA%20et%20Niger.pdf
►http://vimeo.com/8547737