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Offshore Precautions
Background
The first step towards consolidating this Emergency Plan was taken
at meetings between a number of companies and public authorities concerned
with the harm to the population and environmental damage caused by
oil and/byproduct spills in Guanabara Bay.
On January 16, 1991, the Emergency Plan was made official by the
Rio de Janeiro state government when it signed the Protocol of Intent
between FEEMA - State Environmental Engineering Foundation and Firjan - Rio de Janeiro State Federation for Industry (*). The protocol will
be renewed and new members included.
The meeting of the existing members in a variety of industrial activities
and all government authorities involved with the environment and safety
of the population, coordinated by an Emergency Plan, was the ideal
recipe for establishing a strategy to immediately combat emergency
oil spill situations in Guanabara Bay, thereby establishing cooperation
between the industries and public authorities.
The current Emergency Plan was based on the IMO - International
Maritime Organization and IPIECA-International Petroleum Industry
Environmental Conservation Association manuals that explain how to
set up contingency plans for oil spills on water (offshore and rivers).
This Emergency Plan substitutes the original "Guanabara Bay
Emergency Plan" prepared by SCPA - Accidental Pollution Control
Service from FEEMA - State Environmental Engineering Foundation.
Please
click here to consult companies and public authorities that started
this Plan:
(*) This link leads to an address outside the Petrobras system. Petrobras accepts no responsibility whatsoever for the contents thereof, nor for the privacy policies or practices of the websites to which it provides links.
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