The ‘Power 8’ reform programme devised by the management in order to plug the hole in the company’s funds, envisages mass redundancies and the sale of plant.

Several countries, including the USA, Japan, Canada, Australia, Brazil and several developing countries have established soil protection policies which include legislation, guidance documents, monitoring systems, identification of risk areas, inventories, remediation programmes and funding mechanisms for contaminated sites for which no responsible party can be found.

22. Urges the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and other United Nations and international agencies to press for the rehabilitation of the Iraqi environment, including the badly damaged South Iraqi Marshlands; urges the neighbouring countries of the Tigris and Euphrates basin to facilitate such a rehabilitation and to resolve the issue of water in a regional framework; notes that priority should be given to the protection and rehabilitation of Huwaiza area which undertaking is immediately feasible and subsequently to the wider marsh areas; urges UNESCO to identify the marshlands as a potential World Heritage ...[+++]Site and plan accordingly; urges the Iranian authorities to arrest further degradation of the Hawr-Al-Azim portion of the trans-boundary marshland area, in the Khouzistan province of the Islamic Republic of Iran, through the immediate adoption and implementation of the recent UNEP proposals;

21. urges the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and other United Nations and international agencies to press for the rehabilitation of the Iraqi environment, including the badly damaged South Iraqi Marshlands; urges the neighbouring countries of the Tigris and Euphrates basin to facilitate such a rehabilitation; notes that priority should be given to the protection and rehabilitation of Huwaiza area which undertaking is immediately feasible and subsequently to the wider marsh areas; urges UNESCO to identify the marshlands as a potential World Heritage Site and plan ...[+++]accordingly;

15. Welcomes the identification of 21 risks sites (hot spots) by the Baia Mare Task Force; supports further identification of "hot spots”, both sites in operation and abandoned sites; proposes that action programs be immediately put in place for remediation and environmental rehabilitation of such sites, in particular to prevent future accidents similar to Doñana and Baia Mare;

First of all, we do have a very extensive program, what we refer to as the CARD program, which is concerned with the remediation of contaminated sites, and there are a series of sites throughout the N.W.T. that we are currently working with.