FRANCE: STRONG GALES PUSH OIL SLICK CLOSER TO ATLANTIC SHORELINE AS VOLUNTEERS CLEAR UP

Record ID: 980949

  • Title: FRANCE: STRONG GALES PUSH OIL SLICK CLOSER TO ATLANTIC SHORELINE AS VOLUNTEERS CLEAR UP
  • Date: 26th December 1999
  • Summary: OFF THE COAST OF FRANCE DECEMBER 23, 1999) (GREENPEACE)(CLEAR BEFORE RE-USE) 1. AERIALS OF SHIP NEAR LARGE OIL SLICK (2 SHOTS) 0.21 UNDISCLOSED LOCATION, FRANCE (DECEMBER 23, 1999) (GREENPEACE) 2. SOUNDBITE (Englsih) GREENPEACE ENVIRONMENTAL CAMPAIGNER PAUL HORSMAN: "Well I think the government and the local authorities are doing what they can. They've mobilised a lot of people, they've mobilised all the fishermen, they've mobilised everybody to try to prevent the inevitable. But unfortunately, when this tide hits the shore there are going to be a lot of impacts. 0.35 OFF THE COAST OF FRANCE DECEMBER 23, 1999)(GREENPEACE)(CLEAR BEFORE RE-USE) 3. AERIAL OF SLICK 0.40 UNDISCLOSED LOCATION, FRANCE (DECEMBER 23, 1999) (GREENPEACE) (CLEAR BEFORE RE-USE) 4. SOUNDBITE (English) GREENPEACE ENVIRONMENTAL CAMPAIGNER PAUL HORSMAN: "The problem is once you have oil spilt into the environment it's almost impossible to clean up. Even in ideal conditions, with all the technology and experts in place you can never recover more than about 15 per cent of the oil and here we've anything but ideal conditions. So the problem is, it's all hands to the pumps, anything that we can do as long as we don't cause further damage." 1.00 ILE D'YEU, FRANCE, (DECEMBER 23, 1999) (REUTERS) 5. WIDE OF ILE D'YEU COAST LINE/ SLV SEAGULLS ON ROCK/ SLV CHURCH/ GV SEASCAPE WITH WAVES CRASHING ON ROCKS (4 SHOTS) 1.22 6. SLV BOAT 1.27 7. JOINVILLE PORT (2 SHOTS) 1.37 8. (SOUNBITE) (French) MP FOR VENDEE REGION PHILIPPE DE VILLIERS SAYING: "I've come to tell the fishermen that we've taken legal action to request of the courts that a committee of experts be formed to evaluate who should bear the responsibility for the boat's sinking and also to evaluate what kind of compensation should be given." 2.20 9. SLV PORT AT JOINVILLE 2.23 10. SLV BOOM BARRIERS BEING PUT IN WATER 2.25 11. SLV MEN ONBOARD MOTOR BOAT 2.28 12. SLV MEN DRAGGING BOOM BARRIER IN HARBOUR/ SLV THREE MEN ON SMALL MOTORBOAT /LV HARBOUR WITH BOOM BARRIER BEING PULLED ACROSS ENTRANCE BY TUG (5 SHOTS) 2.46 NOIRMOUTIER, FRANCE, (DECEMBER 24, 1999) (REUTERS) 13. TRACKING SHOT CIVIL SECURITY ONSCRIPTS ON BACK OF TRACTOR/PAN TO OYSTER FIELDS (2 SHOTS) 2.53 14. SCU OYSTER BASKETS 2.57 15. SLV OYSTER BASKETS AND WORKERS ON TRACTOR IN DISTANCE/ CU OYSTER BASKET (2 SHOTS) 3.03 16. MV CIVIL SECURITY BRINGING IN OYSTER BASKETS TO SAVE THEM FROM OIL SLICK (4 SHOTS) 3.19 17. (SOUNDBITE) (French) OYSTER GROWER PATRICE BONNEAU SAYING: "We onlly want to protect our oysters, we'll still have oysters for Christmas and New Year's Eve. The stock we had here should have been for later -- for the post-holiday period through March or April. There are a lot of guys here who have oysters which could have waited another year, so they are too small. The small ones we will keep in reserve. We don't know what's going to happen with this oil slick. We are going to do our best to keep our oysters in a safe place for the moment." 4.11 18. MV BONNEAU AND CIVIL SECURITY WRAPPING OYSTER BASKETS IN CELLOPHANE CLINGFILM (2 SHOTS) 4.20 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: ILE D'YEU, ILE DE NOIRMOUTIER, AND OFF THE COAST OF FRANCE
  • Country: France
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