CCB - Activities Enforcing Sustainable Oil Business Development in the Baltic Sea Region SOLUTIONS -

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CCB - Activities Enforcing Sustainable Oil
Business Development in the Baltic Sea Region
SOLUTIONS -
Presentation at the CCB Baltic Conference 2004
OIL TRANSFER ON THE BALTIC SEA CONFLICTS AND
SOLUTIONS
Mr Gunnar Norén Executive Secretary toCoalition
Clean Baltic
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CCB produced in 2002 the CCB year-book
Baltic Sea Hot Spots Hazards and Possibilities
for the Baltic Sea Region One of the identified
trends and areas of special concern for Baltic
Sea environment was Many threats to Baltic Sea
and coastal areas new oil-terminals, harbours,
etc
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CCB produced in 2003 the CCB
year-book
Harmful installations in the Baltic Sea Region
incl topics - Increased Maritime Safety for the
North and the Baltic Sea- Oil Transportation
and Oil Terminals in the Northern part of the
Baltic Sea - LUKOIL company Imitation of a good
image plans for oil extraction outside
Kaliningrad
A CCB Priority Area Prevention of installations
and transports harmful to the Baltic Sea
environment and coastal areas
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Trends - increased density of shipping in the
Baltic Sea Area - raised interest to buy Russian
oil - export of Russian oil products on the
world market - main expansion of Russian oil
export through Baltic Sea Prestige
oil-tanker - first loaded in Russian
Primorsk-terminal - later loaded, by a ship
from Klaipeda, off-shore the Latvian coast
outside Ventspils
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Recent political decisions on Baltic Sea Oil
Transport IMO designation of the Baltic Sea
as a PSSA (Particularily Sensitive Sea Area),
April 2004 Despite Russian Federation tried to
stop such decision Next step within Baltic
Sea Region develop proposals for
requirements-restrictions for Baltic Sea
shipping Baltic shipping restrictions for
PSSA, to be adopted byIMO in 2005
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What will come ? Discussions start e g within
HELCOM- Mandatory pilotage - Traffic
routeing - Places of refuge network in Baltic
Sea - Rapid response capacity - combating -
Double-hull vessels - Strengthening of Port
state control ?
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No Oil shipping without oil-terminals and
harbours on land
Decisions on oil-transport start with spatial
planning in coastal zones
CCB presented a Future oil map of the Baltic
region in 1995
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Butinge oil-terminal, Lithuania
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New approach to Stop expansion of Russian
Oil-terminals By-pass with oil pipelines from
Russia to the Atlantic Use and expand existing
oil pipeline system from Russia to East-Germany,
(e g to Rotterdam) Baltic Sea would be relieved
from expanded Russian oil export Transport of
oil in pipelines, on land or in the sea, is much
more safe, than oil shipping transport on the sea
Agreement between EU and Russia- no more
expansion of Baltic Russian oil-terminals -
Russia is guaranteed an oil-terminal at the
European Atlantic coast, incl. full Russian
control and same profitability for Russian
oil-companies Possible solution?
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Alien Aquatic Species and Ballast Water Threats
from alien aquatic species have been discussed
for many years. No concrete measures/recommendati
ons to prevent unintentional introductions have
been decided on by HELCOM - Global Ballast
Water Management Programme/IMO has developed
advice on step- wise actions for better control
of ballast water - Such actions has been
adopted by some sea- areas and many countries -
Unfortunately - NO such actions for better
control of ballast water has been adopted in
Baltic Sea
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Proposals for HELCOM action - Mandatory
information on ballast water situation for all
ships arriving to all Baltic harbours ( simple
fill in of formats from GloBallast Programme)