Industrial net pen salmon farming originated in Norway then moved into Scotland, Ireland, Canada
and is now spreading rapidly through Chile at huge ecological cost. Scientific studies show that wild
salmon populations are crashing wherever there are salmon farms due to pathogen amplification and
genetic pollution, but the damage runs much deeper. Participants signed the Declaration in united
opposition to the current practices of industrial salmon farming, citing not only damage to wild
salmon, but also labor law infractions in Chile, viral epidemics, impact on the indigenous Sami of
Norway and First Nations in Canada, fouling of local food resources with drug and waste release as
well as reduction of the global food supply - taking more wild fish than it produces.

“I'm deeply ashamed as a Norwegian. After damaging our wild salmon, the industrial salmon
farmers are fouling the pristine waters of Canada and Chile. Nobody in Norway knows about this,
but I will tell them,” warned Kurt Oddekalv of Green Warriors of Norway.

Anne Mosness, of the U.S. Go Wild Campaign says, “In Washington and Maine massive escapes,
diseases and the possibility of genetically engineered fish and offshore farms pose huge risks to the
viability of our oceans. We cannot ignore our obligation to future generations to keep our oceans
alive.

The 1995 United Nations Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries states “As a primary goal,
aquaculture development should conserve genetic diversity and minimize negative effects of farmed
fish on wild fish populations, while increasing supplies of fish for human consumption.” “We
declare each of these principles violated by today’s salmon farmers,” says Canadian biologist
Alexandra Morton.

While some would like to see salmon farms in closed tanks, Dr. Wolfram Heise, of Chile states “It
is simply not possible to produce salmon in a sustainable way. You will never get it into ecological
balance. There is no right way of doing the wrong thing! This industry plunders the wild fish stocks
of the oceans and to destroy the coastal marine ecosystems which will need decades to recover, if
ever.

The signatories have spent years working to protect their coastlines from salmon farming with little
result and today come together in a global response to a global industry. They invite others to sign
the Declaration Against Unsustainable Salmon Farming at www.ourglobalocean.org.

Contacts:
Alexandra Morton, Canada 250-973-2306, 250-974-7086 info@adopt-a-fry.org
Chief Bob Chamberlin, First Nations, Canada 250-974-8282 mooguy@Shaw.ca
Kurt Willy Oddekalv, Norway +47 90 89 22 68 kurt@nmf.no.
Anne Mosness, USA west coast Eatwildfish@aol.com
Don Staniford: USA +1 202 251 3997, don_staniford@yahoo.co.uk
Wolfram Heise, Chile +56-65-250079 wolframheise1@gmx.de
Bruce Sandison, Scotland 01847 611274, 0759 3187634 (mobile) bsandison@btinternet.com

Read: Declaration Against Unsustainable Salmon Farming
Norwegian salmon farmers are destroying the wildlife of Canada  Wach the movie

The plans for the vessel were presented in the Green Warriors` headquarter in Bergen, Norway, in October 2006 and the catamaran has since then been built in cooperation with Fjellstrand Shipyards AS in Hardanger. The building of the ship is documented on film which can be seen on our webpage, www.greenwarriors.com. The cost was estimated to 41,2 mill NOK, and a large part of the financing has come through private sponsors. Thanks to generous shipowners and private donators and the three major sponsors, Grieg Foundation, Trond Mohn and Fjellstrand AS this spectacular environmental-project is realised. Users of the vessel will be governmental bodies as well as private companies. The Miljødronningen will bring Green Warriors of Norway and its environmental work into a new era.

The ship is of the Flying Cat 35 type, 33,9 meters (108 ft) long and 10,4 meters broad. It has been built with a helicopter platform and ice strengthened for operations in the northern areas of the Barents Sea, the coasts of the Spitzbergen Islands and the North Sea. Suppliers of the best and most competent technology and materials on environmental classifications have been cooperating in the building.

Its passenger and conference capacity is 50 persons. In addition to being operated as a conference and environment surveillance vessel the ship will also be a floating ”laboratory” where alternative solutions on interiors, fuels and materials are being presented, also to the benefit of the suppliers. The ship will enable Green Warriors to conduct subsea environmental studies and samples via ROV down to 1500-2000 meters depth. The filming and samples, the latter analysed in the on board laboratory, will be transferred by sattelite globally from the vessels communication center. The vessel will also conduct climate research. Here the helicopter Eurocopter EC 120 will contribute, as it will for the surveillance of pollution and the conducting of oil spill recovery operations in the future.

Large parts of the financing of the costs comes from sponsorships, mainly shipowners and private persons located in Bergen and in Haugesund. The bank Sparebanken Vest is a cooperating partner and has been managing the loans on the ship. The vessel will be engaged in the spot market for use by governmental bodies and private companies.

Building the Miljødronningen gives Green Warriors of Norway and the environmental cause a new horizon of opportunities. From now on no environmental offender will be able to feel comfortable or safe when polluting the nature and environment. Documenting the environmental status of sea areas and verifying pollution of these and in particular the coastline and the fjords will be one of many tasks relevant for the use of the vessel.

Miljødronningen decorated with spekkhogger( Oorca), illustration: Jan Fekjan  Photo: Anders Løberg, Green Warriors of Norway Click  photo for download of big pics

Miljødronningen during launch at Fjellstrand Yard 29. december 2007.Photo: Anders Løberg, Green Warriors of Norway Click photo for download of big pics

From left: Sveinung Vestbø, Project Manager Fjellstrand AS, Ole Jonni Johannesen, master, Kurt Willy Oddekalv, shipowner, Green Warriors of Norway. Photo: Anders Løberg, Green Warriors of Norway Click  photo for download of big pics
Launch of Miljødronningen, Eco Queen, in the crane of Fjellstrand AS. Photo: Anders Løberg, Green Warriors of Norway Click  photo for download of big pics

Miljødronningen launched, in perfect trim. Photo: Anders Løberg, Green Warriors of Norway
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Miljødronningen floating. Photo: Anders Løberg, Green Warriors of Norway
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The Green Warriors of Norway are very critical to the capturing and depositing of CO2 as a solution to the world's climate problem. The world's top leaders should instead discuss powerful cuts in the usage of fossilised fuel. Norway's Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg will on Bali attempt to sell in an environment solution that gives more emission because Norway wishes to use CO2 as a pressuriser at the end of Norway's oil time to press out more oil from the reservoirs in the North Sea. Thereafter Norway wishes to deposit CO2 into the seabed, the seabed is not sealed, it looks like Swiss cheese after oil drilling and is not sealed. Green Warriors of Norway do not support this hazardous proposal. The world and Norway must take a cut in emission and consumption.

The most actual technology for captures of CO2, and the only one that at this time is sufficiently tried in practise, is amine absorption, which will give considerable emission of amine (a nitrogen bond) to the air, together with even greater deposits of ammoniac. In addition there will be amine emission to the water, and the process will generate amine-containing waste in the size order of 600 to 6000 tons/year. The waste must probably be treated as special waste.
 
American authorities classify amines as chemicals with high damage potential in aquatic surroundings, and both amines and ammoniac are nitrogen bonds that lead to acidification. Norway is bound by many international conventions to reduce these emissions. When the authorities now do not only accept emissions of environment burdening nitrogen bonds, but in practise charge the plant to pollute without that there previously provides consequence exhibitions or other calculations of the environmental consequences, then this becomes both regrettable, very unlucky, and not in thread with the national climate politics or national goal.
 
UNs´ climate panel published as recently as 2005 a report that showed that environment- and health dangerous NOx emissions will increase with up to 20 % if one installs CO2- cleaning equipment on a gas-power-work.
 
By CO2- handling, the degree of efficiency (degree of exploitation of the energy content in the gas) on for example a gas-power-work is reduced by between 15 and 20%, something that leads to larger emissions per kWh of all the emission components.
 
The increased emission of nitrogen bonds must of course measure up against possible reductions in emission of the climate gas CO2. But it is not certain that the effect of cleaning out CO2 and using it to pressurise to press more oil out of the North Sea will give a more positive effect.
 
Experiences from the USA suggest an extra oil emission of between 7 and 15% of the originally present amount of oil if CO2 is used as a pressuriser, compared with what water injection can give.
 

Out of this, one can easily calculate that the extra oil amounts that are pressed up will in turn generate CO2 emission of at least the same amount as the gas that is pressed in. In the best case one achieves a delay of the problem, in the worst case CO2-injection will at first sight give increased climate problem. It is therefore just by storage of CO2 in closed oilfields that one in the best case will get any significant effect.

The technological risks bound to CO2 cleaning and depositing are so far poorly exhibited. On one of the large oilfields in the North Sea, Ekofisk field, one fears for example that CO2 will weaken the chalkstone in the reservoir and lead to well collapse.

Many marine researchers have expressed fear for the ecological consequences that can arise if CO2 leaks out of the reservoirs. There are no satisfactory consequence exhibitions about the potential damages of this in the marine environment.

In total there are at this time so many uncertainty moments bound to the environment consequences of the technology that there probably requires many years research and trials before it can be applied. Norway's one-sided investment on CO2 handling as the climate solution is therefore of doubtful character.
 
 

More information: Kurt Willy Oddeklav, leder of Green Warriors of Norway
Phone:  +47 9089 2268

Waiting to brand President Mr. Bush´s butt.šššššššššššš Photo: greenwarriors.com

Kurt W. Oddekalv From Green Warriors of Norway was demonstrating against the American President George W. Bush close to UN Climate Change Conference on Bali, with a banner with the text: ”A rope for Mr. Bush”. The demonstrattion was held Wednesday 12. December 07.00 AM at the main road in to the Climate Conference, where all the VIP delegates had to pass. The event lasted for about 3 hours. The demonstration was approved by the highest Indonesian police authorities. The demonstration was a direct protest against the worlds worst climate enemy, USA President, George W. Bush.

It had a clear message that USA takes the global warming seriously, ratify the Kyoto Protocol, and increase action against global warming. The event was covered by about 100 journalists from the international press. Kurt W.Oddekalv was using full cowboy outfit, lasso and a branding iron,with the shape of the logo of Bali Conference, designed to brand Mr. Bush´s butt.
A rope for Mr. BushšššššššššššššššššššššššššššššššššššššššššššššššPhoto: greenwarriors.com

The intention with the performance of Kurt W. Oddekalv is to force Bush in to a standing position during the voting for the new agreement. A standing means yes. Bush ignorance for global warming is the biggest threat to the clima on the earth. USA have a special responsibility as the worlds largest consumer of fossil energy. USA must take their part of the global responsibility for co2 emissions, without USA in the team, we are not able to stop the global warming in time. Green Warriors of Norway represented by Kurt W. Oddekalv has taken action against another American president, George Bush, under the Bio Conference in Rio in 1992. This event was covered by several international TV channels.

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Fedje, Bergen, Norway: 25. March 2007

Submarine U-864 containing 65 tons of Mercury, is likely to contaminate big areas of the norwegian coastline.  17 tons of Mercury is not found yet.

The norwegian government lead by prime minister Jens Stoltenberg have decided to cover two parts of U-864 under 50 cm olivine sand and 20 cm gravel.  One part of U-864 is still missing.

Reports regarding raising and covering the submarine, says that covering is most secure in a short perspective regarding the risk of Mercury contamination of the marine environment.

In a long term, covering is critical in several respects:
*More rapid corrosion of the Mercury containers.
*Problems of collapsing of the wreck because of the weight of the cover.
*Risk of explosion of torpedos and compressed air tanks, with the result of breakout of Mercury containers, and heavy pollution.
*Problems in collecting the Mercury containers at a later stage.
*Unstability in the ground caused by earth quakes may brake the cover.
*No guarantee of monitoring the poison bomb over a long time span/forever.

The government says that it is possible to collect the Mercury at a later stage, they also points at the risk of raising a wreck containing explosives.

Smit Salvage, the company that lifted Kursk (9000 tons)from the Barents Sea, did a lift of a similar submarine to U-864, secured the explosives, and put the ship on a museum.   The submarine was very well preserved inside because og leak of hydraulic oil.   Smit Salvage says in a report about U-864 that the sunken parts of the ship, laying on 150 metres, is in a good condition for lifting.  Even if some of the Mercury should leak out under a lifting operation, it is easy to catch the pollution before it spreads in the environment.   One of the most experienced Marine Rescue Companies in the area, Georg Eide, says that they have a completely secure technology to lift the submarine with no damage to the environment, and low risk of explosions from the missiles in U-864.

The people in Fedje community wants to get U-864 up from the sea.  All environmental organizations in Norway agree that the best solution for U-864 is to lift it up, and take control over the Mercury.

One problem that the government is forgetting, is that the middle part of U-864 is not located, and is estimated to contain about 17 tons of Mercury. A cover of the front and the back of U-864 will not solve the problem with the missing Mercury.

It is not a question of money, it´s all about the future for the coast people in Norway, and the health of anyone that eat fish from the area, says Kurt Oddekalv, president of Green Warriors of Norway, an environmental organisation with it´s headquarter in Bergen.

Now the norwegian government have taken a wrong and hasty decision, instead of investigating the possibilities of raising the submarine in a secure way.
Norway have the best subsea engineering companies and qualifications, close to where the wreck is located, and is perfectly able to manage a secure operation.

The people of Fedje, Norwegian Fisheries and environmental organisations in Norway strongly demand the government of Norway to decide to lift U-864 and take control over 65 tons of Mercury.

Links: Green Warriors of Norway   http://www.greenwarriors.com

Action organisation for lifting U-864  http://www.hev-u864.com

Submarine webpage on U-864     http://www.uboat.net/boats/u864.htm

Info about Minimata Disease caused by Mercury  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamata_disease

Contact person: Kurt Oddekalv, president Green Warriors of Norway.
mail: kurt@nmf.no     Tel: +47 90 89 22 68

The ship will be built with a ice class for operating in northern areas Barents Sea, Svalbard and the North sea. A helicopter platform will be part of the equipment, built for Eurocopter EC 120. The vessel is built for 50 passengers. A large part of the finances is sponsorships from shipowners and private persons located in Bergen and also in Haugesund. The bank, Sparebanken Vest, is cooperating partner and financial institution for the loan on the ship.

From left: Jan Willy F. Holm, GWs Supervisor adv engineer, Kurt Oddekalv, President GW, From the yard Fjellstrand AS: Asbjørn Tolo, Managing Director and Bjarne Børven, Sales Director. Foto: Gaute Singstad, NMF

Building starts 13. november 2006 - vessel delivery september 2007
Having worked on the Miljødronningen project since 1997, Green Warriors of Norway now has signed contract with the yard Fjellstrand AS to start building the hull in november this year with a planned delivery in september 2007. The building will be filmed an documented on our webpage, www.greenwarriors.com. As far as possible GW will build and choose suppliers to the vessel in order to build the most environ mental friendly vessel ever built. This includes e.g. alternative fuel and ban on PVC.

Green Warriors of Norway will therefore address the supplier market and call for the suppliers of best and most competent technology and materials on environmental classifications to contact the Green Warriors.
The vessel Miljødronningen will in addition to being operating as a conference and environmental-surveillance vessel also be a floating ”laboratory” where alternative solutions on interior, fuel, material are showed, also to the benefit of the suppliers. The vessel will be engaged in the spot market due to use for governmental bodies, private companies a a part of financing the management and cost related to this.

Miljødronningen will bring Green Warriors of Norway and its environmental work into a new era.Thanks to generous shipowners and private donators and the three major sponsors, Grieg Foundation, Trond Mohn and the yard Fjellstrand AS this spectacular environmental-project is realised.

The ship will enable Green Warriors to conduct subsea environmental studies and samples via ROV on 2000-3000 meters depth. The filming and samples, the latter analysed in laboratory, will be transferred by sattelite all around the world from the vessels communication center. The vessel will have class for sailing and operating in the North sea and northern areas/Barents sea. The vessel will also conduct climate research. Here the helicopter Eurocopter EC 120 will contribute, as it will when it comes to surveillance of pollution and the leading of oil spill recovery operations in the future.

Building the Miljødronningen gives Green Warriors of Norway and the environmental cause a new horizon of opportunities. From now on no environmental offender will be able to feel comfortable or safe due to polluting the nature and environment. Users of the vessel will be governmental bodies as well as private companies. Verifying pollution of the coastline and the fjords will be one of many jobs relevant for the use of the vessel.

Yours Sincerely
Green Warriors of Norway

Kurt Oddekalv
president

Jan-Hugo Holten
Executive oil and shipping

Anders Løberg
Information/Web editor

Contact-information
Kurt Oddekalv cell. 0047 917 04 361 / 908 92 268
Jan-Hugo Holten cell. 0047 400 65 701
Anders Løberg cell. 0047 911 74 175

Fjellstrand AS:

Bjarne Børven cell: 0047 90 100 746
Asbjørn Tolo cell: 0047 91 88 00 17

More information:

Short specs on the vessel here

Sponsor list here

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