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Rotten fish cargo source of power for Denmark |
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OSLO - The rotting remains from a sunken cargo ship carrying 3,300 tonnes of frozen fish just off Norway's western coast have been shipped to Denmark where the cargo is being used as biofuel, says salvage firm Eide Marine Servies.
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Kjartan Mehammer, chartering manager of Eide, said his company had turned to Denmark in an attempt to get rid of the decomposing fish which posed an environmental hazard to people living close to Bleivik where fish from the Green Alesund washed up on the beaches last summer. The cargo ship, owned by Norway's Nomadic Shipping, which sunk in December last year had become a serious envrionmental problem as the fish started to pollute the sea and air in the local area. The ship was raised this summer. "When we raised the ship it had been lying at the seabed for half a year and the cargo rooms were full of gases which gave off a terrible stench," Mehammer said last week. But in Denmark, these gases have now been powering six different biofuel plants, while the residues will be used as compost. "We've already used all the fish we received as biofuel to produce electricity and heat," said Joergen Johansen, managing director at Danish Hvims Biogas, one of the receivers of fish from Green Alesund.
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REUTERS NEWS SERVICE
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