Productions
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6 August 2007
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ARD Monitor
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The Bayer CO2 pipeline |
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The German chemical company Bayer is laying a pipe line for CO2 in Germany. CO2 is used for the fabrication of plastics and is highly toxic. The pipeline often passes by at a few meters of houses. How unsafe is the transport of CO2? ARD Monitor wants to find out how the Dutch placed and manage a CO2 pipeline from the Rotterdam to the Antwerp harbor. The CO2 pipeline is placed in a special underground -100 meters wide- pipeline street together with many other pipelines and cables. The director of the Dutch pipe line street explains why the Dutch created this pipeline street and how save the transport of CO2 is. Besides the Dutch CO2 pipeline there is practically no housing.
Activities: research & set-up, accompany filming, direction, interviews and translation.