{"id":2937,"date":"2015-05-02T18:54:30","date_gmt":"2015-05-02T22:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightoncanada.ca\/?p=2937"},"modified":"2015-05-02T19:02:36","modified_gmt":"2015-05-02T23:02:36","slug":"asbestos-industry-lobbyists-will-go-to-geneva-to-sabotage-rotterdam-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/?p=2937","title":{"rendered":"Asbestos industry lobbyists will go to Geneva to sabotage Rotterdam Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathleen Ruff, RightOnCanada.ca<\/p>\n<p>Two dozen asbestos industry lobbyists will be attending the Rotterdam Convention conference in Geneva this month to seek to prevent chrysotile asbestos from being put on the Convention\u2019s list of hazardous substances.<\/p>\n<p>The Convention\u2019s committee of scientific experts (the Chemical Review Committee) has repeatedly recommended that chrysotile asbestos should be put on the Convention\u2019s list. This would require countries to obtain Prior Informed Consent before exporting chrysotile asbestos to another country.<\/p>\n<p>Among the lobbyists who will at the Rotterdam Convention conference are four from India, 5 from Russia, 2 from Brazil, 3 from Vietnam, 2 from Ukraine, 1 from Kazakhstan and 5 from the International Chrysotile Association (ICA), which is based in Quebec. Included in the ICA delegation are Cl\u00e9ment Godbout, former head of the Canadian Chrysotile Institute, Jean-Marc LeBlond, also formerly a director of the Canadian Chrysotile Institute and a director of the Quebec asbestos company, LAB Chrysotile, and Serge Boislard of the Quebec Pro-Chrysotile Movement.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a list of asbestos industry lobbyists who will be working to sabotage the Convention at the May UN conference in order to protect industry profits.<\/p>\n<p>The asbestos industry and the handful of countries who profit from mining and selling asbestos are continuing their campaign to sabotage the Rotterdam Convention. It is time for the rest of the world to take a strong stand and put a stop to this sabotage.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Asbestos industry lobbyists attending May 2015 Rotterdam Convention Conference<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Asbestos Cement Products Manufacturers&#8217; Association (ACPMA)<\/strong><\/p>\n<address>Mr. Manohar Lal<\/address>\n<address>Director General, Asbestos Cement Products Manufacturers&#8217; Association<\/address>\n<address>New Delhi, India<\/address>\n<address>\u00a0<\/address>\n<address>Mr. Arun Kumar Saraf<\/address>\n<address>Chairman, Chrysotile Usage and Transportation<\/address>\n<address>UAL Industries LTD.<\/address>\n<address>Kolkata, India<\/address>\n<address>\u00a0<\/address>\n<address>Mr. Vivek Chandra Rao Sripalle<\/address>\n<address>Director, Safety, Health and Environment<\/address>\n<address>Asbestos Cement Products Manufacturers&#8217; Association<\/address>\n<address>New Delhi, India<\/address>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Asbestos Information Centre<\/strong><\/p>\n<address>\u00a0Mr. Manish Sanghi<\/address>\n<address>Vice Chairman<\/address>\n<address>All Matters Concerning Chrysotile Usage and Transportation<\/address>\n<address>Everest Industries Ltd<\/address>\n<address>New Delhi, India<\/address>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Association Ukrainian Chrysotile Corporation<\/strong><\/p>\n<address>Mr. Ruslan Koval<\/address>\n<address>Executive director<\/address>\n<address>Association Ukrainian Chrysotile Corporation<\/address>\n<address>\u00a0<\/address>\n<address>Mr. Oleksandr Sierkin<\/address>\n<address>Chairman<\/address>\n<address>Association Ukrainian Chrysotile Corporation<\/address>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chrysotile Association NPO<\/strong><\/p>\n<address>\u00a0Mr. Vladimir Galitsyn<\/address>\n<address>Executive Director<\/address>\n<address>Chrysotile Association NPO<\/address>\n<address>Moscow, Russian Federation<\/address>\n<address>\u00a0<\/address>\n<address>Ms. Larisa Porsina<\/address>\n<address>Coordinator on Foreign Affairs<\/address>\n<address>Chrysotile Association<\/address>\n<address>Moscow, Russian Federation<\/address>\n<address>\u00a0<\/address>\n<address>Mr. Konstantin Saranchuk<\/address>\n<address>Legal Advisor<\/address>\n<address>Chrysotile Association<\/address>\n<address>Moscow, Russian Federation<\/address>\n<p>\u00a0<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Confederation of Employers of Kazakhstan<\/strong><\/p>\n<address>\u00a0Mr. Nurlan Omarov<\/address>\n<address>Advisor<\/address>\n<address>Confederation of Employers of Kazakhstan<\/address>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Federa\u00e7\u00e3o Internacional dos Trabalhadores do Amianto Crisotila (FITAC)<\/strong><\/p>\n<address>Mr. Adilson Concei\u00e7ao Santana<\/address>\n<address>President<\/address>\n<address>Federa\u00e7\u00e3o Internacional dos Trabalhadores do Amianto Crisotila (FITAC)<\/address>\n<address>Brazil<\/address>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Instituto Brasileiro do Crisotila (IBC)<\/strong><\/p>\n<address>Mr. Marcondes Braga De Moraes<\/address>\n<address>International Affairs Coordinator<\/address>\n<address>Instituto Brasileiro do Crisotila (IBC)<\/address>\n<address>Goi\u00e3nia, Brazil<\/address>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>International Alliance of Trade Union Organizations \u201cChrysotile\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<address>Mr. Andrey Kholzakov<\/address>\n<address>Chairman \/ Adviser for International Affairs<\/address>\n<address>International Alliance of Trade Union Organizations \u201cChrysotile\u201d<\/address>\n<address>Asbest Town, Russian Federation<\/address>\n<address>\u00a0<\/address>\n<address>Mr. Dmitrii Selianin<\/address>\n<address>Adviser for International Affairs<\/address>\n<address>International Alliance of Trade Union Organizations \u201cChrysotile\u201d<\/address>\n<address>Asbest Town, Russian Federation<\/address>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>International Chrysotile Association<\/strong><\/p>\n<address>Mr. Emiliano 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The Convention\u2019s committee of scientific experts (the Chemical Review Committee) has repeatedly recommended that chrysotile asbestos should be put on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[147,21,148,19],"class_list":["post-2937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asbestos","tag-asbestos-lobby","tag-chrysotile-institute","tag-international-chrysotile-association","tag-rotterdam-convention"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2937"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2945,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937\/revisions\/2945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}