Plouray
Encyclopedia
Plouray is a commune
in the Morbihan
department of Brittany in north-western France
.
Communes of France
The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are roughly equivalent to incorporated municipalities or villages in the United States or Gemeinden in Germany...
in the Morbihan
Morbihan
Morbihan is a department in Brittany, situated in the northwest of France. It is named after the Morbihan , the enclosed sea that is the principal feature of the coastline.-History:...
department of Brittany in north-western France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
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Pollution
- Planning a base for industrial toxic waste by the French company GDEGDEGDE may refer to :* Gungahlin Drive Extension, a major road project in Canberra, Australia* IATA code for Gode Airport in Ethiopia* GNOME Desktop Environment* The Global Design Effort to design the International Linear Collider.gde may refer to :...
, a subsidiary of the industrial group TrafiguraTrafiguraTrafigura is an Amsterdam-based multinational company founded in 1993 trading in base metals and energy, including oil. the company had equity of more than $2 billion and a turnover of $73 billion that generated $440 million of profit....
, which sent the ship Probo-Koala to AbidjanAbidjanAbidjan is the economic and former official capital of Côte d'Ivoire, while the current capital is Yamoussoukro. it was the largest city in the nation and the third-largest French-speaking city in the world, after Paris, and Kinshasa but before Montreal...
in 2006 (see 2006 Ivory Coast toxic waste spill).