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According to an official report from the Netherlands, traders export hydrocarbons mixed with chemicals that are dangerous to health to the African continent
Soon, perhaps, West Africa will stop being intoxicated by gasoline and diesel emitting large quantities of fine particles exported by giants of the unscrupulous trading. It is the famous "African quality", as the brokers say: poor quality oil products mixed with very chemical substances in decant tank tanks.
The sulfur content is, therefore, between 200 and 1 000 times higher than European standards, the devastating public health consequences and the benefits for large tankers. A scandal revealed by a rigorous investigation by the Swiss organization Public Eye (formerly Berne Declaration) in September 2016.
This time, it is not the "propaganda" of NGOs or passionate environmental activists, as some traders of large groups specializing in the manufacture and export of this "dirty diesel" unsaleable elsewhere than in Africa have attempted to believe.
In an official report released Monday, July 9, the Inspection for the human environment and transport in the Netherlands notes that "fuels destined for West Africa are mixed as much as possible" .
Mixture of petroleum products
After an investigation into the cargoes of forty-four tankers bound for West Africa, the Dutch environmental police found the use "on a large scale" manganese and benzene, highly carcinogenic substances, as well as other petrochemicals banned in most parts of the world. To the point of having sometimes found in the fuels destined this part of the world until "300 times more sulfur than allowed by the European standards" .
If the Netherlands has ordered this The investigation which will be presented to Parliament at a date yet unknown and of which certain cases of illegality could be brought to justice is that …
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