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Hot issues for Poland in relation with oil bussiness on the Baltic Sea

Coalition Clean Baltic Conference, 2004. Hot issues for Poland in relation with oil bussiness on the Baltic Sea. Robert Cyglicki. Human element contributing to over 80 % marine accidents. Baltic Sea is one of the most crowded seas in the world. About 15% of all sea transport take

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Hot issues for Poland in relation with oil bussiness on the Baltic Sea

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  1. Coalition Clean Baltic Conference, 2004 Hot issues for Poland in relation with oil bussiness on the Baltic Sea Robert Cyglicki

  2. Human element contributing to over 80 % marine accidents Baltic Sea is one of the mostcrowded seas in the world • About 15% of all sea transport take • place through this almost completely • closed water region • Since 1995 oil transportation via Baltic Sea has • increased by almost 100% • Risk of grounding and collision with oil spill result is estimated to 1 per 2 500 journeys.

  3. Offshore oil extraction threats to the Baltic Sea • impact of the seismic tests on the spawn • and young fry. • drilling discharges (drilling fluids, • toxic components, cuttings and • suspended substances) • production operations (produced waters, sand, • cement residues ...etc.) • oil spills (effects of oil on maritime organisms, • populations and ecosystems)

  4. Do not spoil the Future... • Hot issues for • Polish coast: • Oil transportation • Offshore oil extraction • and exploration GREEN FEDERATION GAJA Campaigne financially supported by the Regional Environmental Center, Budapest

  5. Oil accidents Main causes: • groundings; • collisions; They mostly occured near: • port areas; • narrow straits;

  6. Number of main ports by countryin the Baltic Sea region: • Sweden - 50 • Finland - 60 • Denmark - 60 • Germany - 7 • Poland - 3

  7. Countries with oil tankers calls: • Sweden 34 % • Denmark 17 % • Finland 13 %

  8. Is Poland prepared for oil accidents on the Baltic? Facts findings: 1. Emergency plan for combatting oil threats to the coast and maritime environment still needs to be developed 2. Lack of professional equipment (only one ship is designed to combat oil pollution, based in Gdynia) 3. Financial limits slowing down implementation process of Vessel Traffic Monitoring and Information System (VTMIS) 4. Selection process for pointing out emergency harbours

  9. Annual Ship Traffic (No. of movements) projected to year 2017 Source: Tacis, 1998 Existing and Future Shipping

  10. Baltic Carrier and Tern ships accident in 2001 oppened up the debate on future transit routes for tankers Conflict of interest between some of the countries appeared In 2003 revision of the TEN-T priority projects list proved EU expectations In 2003 the Expert Ad Hoc Working Group on Transit Routeing of the Helisnki Commission decided about carrying out the Formal Safety Assessment to find optimized future routes

  11. Possible NGOs recommendation concerning future routing for tankers on the Baltic Sea. • To recognise diffrences in countries capacities for • combatting oil threats to maritime environment. • To carry out Strategical Environmental Assessment • as a basis to decide about routing. Report should • assesses costs of mitigation and compensation • measures of all possible variants.

  12. Offshore oil extractionin the Polish coast Concession on searching and recognizing oil deposits Concession for the oil extraction

  13. Exploration of B-8 deposit, with the use of technical solutions that have been exercised on B-3 deposit Recognition of gas deposits through drilling of investigative wells on 4 discovered deposits. Gas- deposits development Petrobaltic closest investment plans: Company established co-operation with geologic institutions in Lithuania, Latvia and Russia (Kaliningrad) in the filed of exploration of hydrocarbons within territories of these countries

  14. Facts findings: • During the extraction and exploration of the • B-3 deposit there was no accidental oil spill • Company do not meassure impact on the • fishieries (seismic tests effects on the spawn • areas are unknown) • Environmental impact reports for searching • and recognizing oil deposits did not fully • comply with EU Directive 97/11/EEC • Company invest money in construction of the • gas pipeline (70 km long) to provide resources • for local power plant

  15. Lessons learned Do not spoil the Future... • Conflict of interest around • the future routing for • tankers on the Baltic Sea • can postpone concrete action • under the PSSA frame campaigne • NGOs in cooperation with local communities can • improve and accelerate preparation of the action plans • for combatting oil pollutions • Open discussion with the Petrobaltic shows that idea • of uniforming and strictly executing ecological standards • of oilextraction can be supported by the bussines

  16. THREATS FOR FUTURE? Russian company Gazprom is preparing new project of the gas pipeline planned to cross the Balctic Sea Cost of investment: USD 5,7 billions European Commission, European Investment Bank, European Bank for Construction and Developed have been already approched for financial support.

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