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A North Sea oil firm with a putrid in Scotland has been accused of taking advantage of a lethal and toxic industry after two of its oil rigs ended up being scrapped on a seaside in India.
Campaigners recount at least 137 of us delight in died over the closing decade in the shipbreaking yards in Alang, and that the yards reason “big” damage to the atmosphere.
Diamond Offshore, a number one offshore drilling agency with main bases in the US and Aberdeen, sold 5 rigs to 1 other firm, World Advertising and marketing Programs (GMS), in 2017. It is possible that every rig incorporates tonnes of toxic raze.
A newBBC Disclosure programme attributable to be broadcast at 20: 30 on Mondayunearths that GMS sold on two rigs, which had been working in US waters, to shipbreaking yards in Alang.
The quite a lot of three rigs were detained in the Cromarty Firth by the Scottish Setting Protection Agency (Sepa) since it believed they too were sure for India.
UK and world regulations prevents the trudge of raze from the UK to establishing countries.
Sepa chief executive Terry A’Hearn told the BBC the three rigs will dwell in the Cromarty Firth till it is miles cheerful they are going somewhere that they would perchance perchance also be “handled properly”.
He said corporations worship Diamond Offshore had a “responsibility of care” below the regulations” to verify that that they’re giving their subject topic to any person that’s going to be doing the factual thing with it”.
Corporations attempting to search out to sell their retired ships or rigs customarily employ cash consumers, or “middlemen”, worship GMS – which has been accused of flouting world regulations by selling to shipbreaking yards with wretched safety info in south Asia.
Shipbreaking yards in India, Bangladesh and Pakistan delight in principal decrease charges than accredited recycling yards in Europe, and pay a principal higher top class for ships and rigs that are attributable to be scrapped.
The industry in South Asia has been criticised by campaigners over its safety and environmental fable.
‘Unhappy practices’
Ingvild Jenssen, from marketing campaign neighborhood Shipbreaking Platform, told BBC Disclosure the environmental impression used to be “big” and that workers lacked handsome protecting instruments.
She said: “Western transport corporations are incomes thousands and thousands of dollars… exploiting wretched practices in South Asia.”
BBC Disclosure tracked down one in every of Diamond Offshore’s broken-down rigs, the Ocean Alliance, in Alang.
It had been sold on by GMS to the Hariyana shipbreaking yard, where workers recount they are easiest paid about 35p an hour.
The Hariyana web online page says it operates a “green recycling policy” and that workers’ safety is a precedence.
But secret filming got by the BBC showed workers working acetylene torches with no breathing mask or protecting apparel.
Drone footage taken also printed debris littering the seaside spherical the remains of the Ocean Alliance.
Diamond Offshore said its gross sales contracts require “those that we contract with to regulate to all applicable regulations”, in conjunction with in the “preparation, transport and recycling of rigs”.
“The rigs ceased to be fragment of the Diamond immediate more than two years in the past and we’re attributable to this truth no longer in a situation to touch upon potentially the most popular fame or future plans for these rigs.”
GMS denied it owned the rigs in the Cromarty Firth or used to be used to be about to pass them to India in breach of rules.
GMS said of the recycling of the Ocean Alliance in Alang: “To counsel [it] used to be executed contrary to the best Company Social Accountability standards which GMS proudly… adheres to… would possibly perchance perchance no longer be farther from the truth.”