>Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 19:54:25 +0900 >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rick Davis) >Subject: Japan resists tightening oil-spill regulations (JEM list) > >www.theecologist.org >July, 2003 > >Japan resists tightening oil-spill regulations > >Japan is opposing new proposals to increase >corporate liability for oil spills, leaked documents >reveal. The documents, passed to Friends of the >Earth [www.foe.org], reveal that some G8 countries >are proposing strengthening the ineffectual liability >regime that has allowed oil multinationals to get away >with recent disasters such as the Erika and Prestige >oil tanker spills. But Japan is opposing the new >proposals. Both Erika and the Prestige oil tankers >were originally manufactured in the country. > >The Japanese government is seeking to weaken >every commitment the G8 environment ministers >intend to make on maritiime transport. It even >refuses to ban single-hulled tankers carrying heavy >fuel oil from its ports.
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