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(Reuters) – Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA on Wednesday said operations were normal at the 335,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Isla refinery on the island of Curacao after it controlled a fire that injured three people. The incident took place as workers were preparing to carry out planned maintenance at a butane unit, PDVSA said, adding that two contractors and a refinery fireman suffered burns. PDVSA is the operator of the refinery. Isla mainly supplies the U.S., Central American and Caribbeanmarkets, according … Lees meer
Dear interested parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity, On behalf of the Foundation for a Clean Environment on Curaçao (hereafter, SMOC), I’d like to inform you with respect to the “Convention on Biological Diversity: Fifth National Report of the Kingdom of the Netherlands”, which was published this year by the Dutch government. This report aims ‘to assess the status of implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)’ in the Dutch Kingdom. I will argue that this report is … Lees meer
WILLEMSTAD — Minister of Defense, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert (VVD), has informed the Lower Chamber about an arrangement to relocate Dutch soldiers living in Julianadorp – at the expense of Defense – which she believes is an appropriate approach. Navy spokesperson Maartje van der Maas stated this on being asked and added that the arrangement for the soldiers will be retroactive from November 1st 2013. As the Amigoe reported earlier, following complaints from several Navy staff members Minister of Defense, Hennis-Plasschaert, indicated mid March to … Lees meer
THE HAGUE — The discussion on the future of the Isla-refinery is surrounded by fear for incomprehension with the employees, for new balances of power and for a society without the oil refinery. However, everyone knows that the refinery doesn’t have a future, according to the shared conclusion during the first meeting of the Vereniging Antilliaans Netwerk (VAN) this year. By our correspondent Otti Thomas Although the subject of the discussion evening at the Nutshuis was sustainable economic development of Curaçao and … Lees meer
WILLEMSTAD — The exceptionally high peak last Friday of sulfur dioxide values – 1650 micrograms – on the website luchtmetingencuracao.org, is being connected with a fire on the property between the Isla-refinery and Nijlweg, which serves as dump. One suspects that unauthorized persons attempted to steal copper by melting the plastic of the cables, which caused the fire. As a result the sulfur buried on the property and the barrels of sulfur started smoldering. The Isla-refinery emphasized that nobody was … Lees meer
In Willemstad, Dutch Colonial façades in cheerful hues of yellow, blue, pink, green worthy of UNESCO World Heritage are set against a background reminiscent of Tolkien’s Mordor. This unmistakable blot in the heart of Curaçao’s otherwise picturesque landscape is a huge oil refinery surrounded by a halo of awful-smelling sulfur dioxide-filled air and asbestos-filled asphalt lake. A remnant of the once thriving Royal Dutch Shell Refinery – founded in 1915 – also happens to be the very reason Curaçao ranks … Lees meer
(Reuters) – The air we breathe is laced with cancer-causing substances and is being officially classified as carcinogenic to humans, the World Health Organization’s cancer agency said on Thursday. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) cited data indicating that in 2010, 223,000 deaths from lung cancer worldwide resulted from air pollution, and said there was also convincing evidence it increases the risk of bladder cancer. Depending on the level of exposure in different parts of the world, the risk … Lees meer
Approximately 6 months ago, the Dutch society confronted the biggest environmental disaster of the Dutch Kingdom on Ducth television. The creators translated their work in English now. So please see Zembla.
In 1993, The Netherlands ratified the Climate Change Convention and, in 2002, the Kyoto Protocol. This information is obtained from the United Nations (UN). In the 1990s, the Netherlands accepted the Montreal Protocol and the subsequent amendments. For clearness sake, to accept or to ratify a protocol or convention is something different. Nevertheless, ratification and acceptance are not a free-ride for a country, but an obligation to operate in accordance with the concerned protocol/convention. But what is the Netherlands? According … Lees meer
On August 11th I acted as a nature guide during the monthly excursions we organize together with Grupo Bina. This time we took the participants on an end-of-the-day tour along the coast of the salt pans of Jan Kok, a beautiful area with lots of wildlife. During the trip, I happened to mention the current gas and oil exploration hype our government created (including the press statement of one of the ministers that we all should invest in Arabic headgear), … Lees meer
