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endnotes
637. A spokesperson for Tredi on a programme broadcast
on Nova Television on 18 October 2007
commented that: “There is definitely more than
6,000 tonnes of heavily polluted material. And
that the new government has chosen a new
approach.” www.novatv.nl/page/detail/uitzendingen/5523#
(accessed 9 January 2012).
638. Greenpeace wrote to the Ivorian government
requesting clarification but did not receive an
answer.
639. Burgeap, Environmental Audit in response to
paragraph 2.2 of the protocol agreement signed
on the 13/02/07 between the parties of the
Côte d’Ivoire nation and Trafigura, Report of the
Audit – phase 1, p9.
640. As at 13 February 2007, CFA 1=USD
0.0019851987 www.xe.com/ucc/
641. Protocol of agreement (Protocole d’accord)
between the State of Côte d’Ivoire and the Trafigura
Parties, 13 February 2007, Article 2.1.
642. Protocol of agreement (Protocole d’accord)
between the State of Côte d’Ivoire and the Trafigura
Parties, 13 February 2007, Article 2.2.
643. Under the terms of the settlement agreement,
both the state and Trafigura took responsibility
for this. Under the Settlement, Trafigura undertook
to arrange and bear the costs of the audit by
contacting the relevant state agencies and/or a
company of “international standing” - Protocole
d’accord between the State of Côte d’Ivoire and
the Trafigura Parties, 13 February 2007, Article
2.2. “Les Parties Trafigura s’engagent à prendre
en charge l’identification et la dépollution complémentaire
des sites pouvant encore contenir
des déchets se rapportant aux Evènements. Les
frais relatifs à l’audit et au constat prévus au
présent paragraphe 2.2 seront pris en charge
par les Parties Trafigura.” “The Trafigura Parties
undertake to be responsible for identifying and
removing any additional pollution from sites that
may still contain waste materials arising from the
Events.. The costs relating to the audit and to
the joint inspection provided for under paragraph
2.2 shall be borne by the Trafigura Parties.”
644. “Lors de la réunion de restitution de la première
phase, tenue à Paris le 6 juillet 2007, les deux
Parties ont souhaité modifier le déroulement de
la deuxieme phase de l’Audit en fixant une priorité
d’intervention dur les deux sites de la route
d’Alépé sur la commune d’Abobo”, Burgéap, Environmental
Audit in response to paragraph 2.2 of
the protocol agreement signed on the 13/02/07
between the parties of the State of Côte d’Ivoire
and Trafigura, Report of the Audit – Phase 2, p3,
“During restitution meeting for the first phase,
held in Paris on 6 July 2007, both Parties wanted
to change to course of the second phase of the
audit by setting as a priority intervention on the
two sites of Alépé and Abobo.” (Amnesty International
translation)
645. Burgeap, Environmental Audit in response to
paragraph 2.2 of the protocol agreement signed
on the 13/02/07 between the parties of the
Côte d’Ivoire nation and Trafigura, Report of the
Audit - Phase 2, p3.
646. Burgeap, Environmental Audit in response to
paragraph 2.2 of the protocol agreement signed
on the 13/02/07 between the parties of the
State of Côte d’Ivoire and Trafigura, Report of the
Audit – phase 2, p17.
647. The government of Côte d’Ivoire did not approve
new amendments to the contract proposed by
Tredi for Route D’Alépé, which apparently would
have entailed removing the contaminated soil that
had been collected, as well the clean-up of one
big sandy and remote zone. Information confidentially
obtained by Greenpeace Netherlands from a
source closely involved in the clean-up process.
648. Enviro2B, Déchets toxiques ivoiriens: nouveau
retard, 2 Octobre 2007, available at www.
enviro2b.com/2007/10/02/dechets-toxiquesivoiriens-nouveau-retard/
(accessed 23 March
2010). Greenpeace made contact with Biogénie
early 2010. The company declined to comment
and referred Greenpeace to the government.
Greenpeace then contacted the Côte d’Ivoire’s
environmental agency, CIAPOL, in June 2010
and again in November 2010 to request information
but received no answers.
649. www.novatv.nl/page/detail/uitzendingen/5523#
Nova TV, Netherlands, 18 October 2007 (last
accessed 9 January 2012). Concerns are
expressed that the method of biodegradation
would not be suitable for the kind of pollution
found at sites in Abidjan where toxic waste from
Probo Koala had been dumped.
650. www.trafigura.com/our_news/probo_koala_updates.aspx#aPhQOw1HC5PP,
press release April
2008, (last accessed June 2010).
651. Avenant au Protocole d’Accord du 13 février
2007, 4 April 2008.
652. “Following a final endorsement in April 2008,
the Ivorian State confirmed it was completely
satisfied that Trafigura had complied with all
of its obligations under the February 2007
Agreement”, Trafigura, “Probo Koala Factsheet”,
January 2010, available at www.trafigura.com/
PDF/TrafiguraProboKoalaFactsheetEnglish.pdf
(accessed May 2012).
653. www.novatv.nl/page/detail/uitzendingen/5523#
Nova TV, Netherlands, 18 October 2007 (last
accessed 9 January 2012). Concerns are
expressed that the method of biodegradation
would not be suitable for the kind of pollution
found at sites in Abidjan where toxic waste from
Probo Koala had been dumped.
654. Okechukwu Ibeanu, Special Rapporteur on the
adverse effects of the illicit movement and
dumping of toxic and dangerous products and
wastes on the enjoyment of human rights, cited
in IRIN, “Côte d’Ivoire: UN warns toxic waste still
a threat”, 19 August 2008. www.irinnews.org/
Report.aspx?ReportId=79894 (accessed May
2012). A year later, in September 2009, in an
official report on the dumping, he repeated the
same concern, Okechukwu Ibeanu, Report of
the Special Rapporteur on the adverse effects
of the movement and dumping of toxic and dangerous
products and wastes on the enjoyment
of human rights, Addendum, Human Rights
Council, Twelfth session, Agenda item 3, Doc
UN A/HRC/12/26/Add.2, 3 September 2009,
para 61, available at www2.ohchr.org/english/
bodies/hrcouncil/docs/12session/A-HRC-12-
26-Add2.pdf (accessed May 2012).
655. Office of the High Commissioner for Human
rights, “Special Rapporteur on Toxic waste
concludes his mission to Côte d’Ivoire”, 8
August 2008, available at www.ohchr.org/
en/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.
aspx?NewsID=9000&LangID=E (accessed 26
October 2011).
656. Okechukwu Ibeanu, Special Rapporteur on the
adverse effects of the illicit movement and
dumping of toxic and dangerous products and
wastes on the enjoyment of human rights, cited
in IRIN, “Côte d’Ivoire: UN warns toxic waste still
a threat”, 19 August 2008. www.irinnews.org/
Report.aspx?ReportId=79894 (accessed May
2012). A year later, in September 2009, in an
official report on the dumping, he repeated the
same concern, Okechukwu Ibeanu, Report of
the Special Rapporteur on the adverse effects
of the movement and dumping of toxic and dangerous
products and wastes on the enjoyment
of human rights, Addendum, Human Rights
Council, Twelfth session, Agenda item 3, Doc
UN A/HRC/12/26/Add.2, 3 September 2009,
para 61, available at www2.ohchr.org/english/
bodies/hrcouncil/docs/12session/A-HRC-12-
26-Add2.pdf (accessed May 2012).
657. Office of the High Commissioner for Human
rights, “Special Rapporteur on Toxic
waste concludes his mission to Côte d’Ivoire”,
8 August 2008, available at www.ohchr.
org/en/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.
aspx?NewsID=9000&LangID=E (accessed 26
October 2011).
658. According to written detailed statements made
by the truck drivers to Trafigura, evidence gathered
by Greenpeace.
659. Interview with source close to the decontamination
process. Name withheld at request of
interviewee.
660. Testimony of a member of the Vridi Workers
Union, Amnesty International mission in Côte
d’Ivoire, February 2009.
661. Testimony of Chef Motto, Amnesty International
mission in Côte d’Ivoire
662. CIAPOL employees, Amnesty International interview,
February 2009.
663. Greenpeace Netherlands, interview with Bagassi
Koura, January 2010.
664. Desire N’Tamon (Djibi village), interview with
Amnesty International December 2010.
665. Nurse Angèle N’Tamon, Amnesty International
interview, December 2010.
666. Testimonies of Salif Konate and Chef Motto Amnesty
International interviews, February 2010,
May 2011 (by phone)
667. Dr Bleu, Interview with Amnesty International,
June 2011 (by phone)
668. www.trafigura.com/our_news/probo_koala_updates/timeline/2009/july/wsp_publishes_independent_repo.aspx?top=237
(last accessed 10
June 2012)