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Energy Giant EDF has today been found guilty of spying
on Greenpeace.
At 14.00hours French Judge Isabelle Prévost-Desprez
pronounced a verdict of guilty in the trial of French state owned energy giant
EDF, which was accused of industrial scale espionage against Greenpeace. She
sentenced EDF executive Pierre-Paul François to 3 years imprisonment, with 30
months suspended and Pascal Durieux 3 years imprisonment, two years suspended
and a 10,000 Euro fine for commissioning the spying
operation.
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Posted by Willie — 4 February 2010 at 12:17pm
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At last, France has officially announced support for an international trade ban on Atlantic bluefin. This is great news. It means that 23 out of the 27 EU countries now support the species being protected by CITES (the organisation which regulates trade in endangered species). It also means there is no longer any effective block to stop the EU reaching a common position (at a previous vote, it had been blocked by the Mediterranean countries).
Two of the main fishing nations, Italy and France are supporting the trade ban, and Italy has already declared it is suspending its own fishery. That is pretty momentous. It's as if the proverbial turkeys have just voted for Christmas by a landslide.
Posted by jossc — 23 September 2009 at 3:28pm
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First of all, apologies to any non-French speakers watching this video, because it's not going to make any sense. So why do I want you to see it? Well, it's more just as supporting evidence (see the transcript below), because this is the statement made by French President Nicolas Sarkozy on 16 July, in which he promised "complete French support regarding the
listing of bluefin tuna to the international wild species convention,
in order to ban any trade in this fish".
Posted by Willie — 21 September 2009 at 7:13pm
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It's de rigueur in some quarters to dismiss France jokingly, as the Simpsons and some US political-types famously have done in the past. But the news today from Brussels suggests that the French government have made an embarrassing volte-face on bluefin tuna.
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Posted by jamie — 2 April 2009 at 4:16pm
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With echoes of that fantastic/horrifying
nuclear thriller Edge
Of Darkness (don't wait for the film, see the original TV series), energy
giant EDF has been busted for spying on our colleagues at the Greenpeace in France.
Five people have been indicted by the French
courts, including two EDF security executives, a computer expert and the head of
a private investigation firm. The charge: attempting to hack into Greenpeace
computer systems in France.
