Green Groups Urge Unified Scrubber Discharge Ban Across Northern Europe

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A coalition of environmental groups is calling on northern European countries to take swift action and ban the dumping of toxic scrubber waste in their waters.

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Some nations have already banned scrubber discharge water in their territorial seas, including Denmark, Finland and Sweden. The NGOs want all signatories to the OSPAR Convention to follow suit and forbid vessels from discharging the pollutants within territorial waters 12 nautical miles (22 km) along the Atlantic, North Sea and English Channel coastlines.

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The OSPAR Convention, aka the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic, entered into force in 1998 and replaced the Oslo and Paris Conventions. OSPAR is so named because of those original conventions ("OS" for Oslo and "PAR" for Paris).

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Signatories to the OSPAR Convention comprise the OSPAR Commission, the mechanism by which 15 Governments and the European Union cooperate to protect the marine environment of the North-East Atlantic, making them exceptionally equipped to take action and safeguard against the hazardous impacts of scrubber wastewater pollution.

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Hudson has led the way in saying “NO to Scrubbers” and fully supports a worldwide ban on scrubber pollution.

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