04 avril 2007
Nucleaire: l'association sherpa denonce l'exploitation et la gestion de deux mines d'uranium d'areva au niger et gabon.
© Laurent SAZY / Divergence
Conference de presse organisee à Paris par Sherpa, une association internationale de juristes, et d'autres ONG. L'affaire concerne l'exploitation de mines d'uranium au Niger et au Gabon, et ses consequences sanitaires (inhalation de particules ou de gaz radioactifs) et environnementales (deversement de boues radioactives dans la nature). Paris, FRANCE:, Jacqueline Gaudet, president of Mounana, an association of former expatriated workers in the site Mouana in Gabon, the head of Nigerian association "Aghir N'Man" (Nigerian environmental protection association) Almoustapha Alhacen, Bruno Chareyron, who is in charge of the CRIIRAD laboratory (Commission for Independent Research and Information on Radioactivity), William Bourdon, president of "Sherpa", an association which defend victims of multinational in developing countries and Jean-Pierre Getti, vice-president of Sherpa, an association which defend victims of multinational in developing countries, attend a press conference, 04 April 2007 in Paris. Several associations gave the press conference today denouncing a failure in the management of the Mounana uranium mine in Gabon by a subsiduary of Areva and calling for the French nuclear group to take some environmental and sanitary responsibilities in its activities in mines in Gabon and Niger.
Lieu : Paris, France