Preventing environmental catastrophe

Progressive Newswire in North America reports on Malta related campaigning by Greenpeace:

Greenpeace research (2) shows that the burden of 'toxic ships' dumped on Asian beaches will increase in the coming years. The phase out entered into force on 5 April, with more than 2,000 oil tankers now slated to be decommissioned over the next five years (3). Within Europe Malta is the leading country with over 80 single hull oil tankers either owned or flagged there.

Activists of the international environmental organisation today called on the Maltese Government to guarantee the clean decommissioning of single hulled oil tankers and to bring the issue onto the agenda of 21 April meeting of the European Union Transport Council. The activists hung a banner on top of the gate of the Maltese Ministry for Competitiveness and Communications today demanding 'Clean Shipbreaking NOW!'. Greenpeace demands that the Maltese government and other EU member states act to solve this problem and end the "out-of-sight, out-of-mind" approach to European shipbreaking..