The new system is suitable for numerous industry sectors including highway transportation, marine, rail and remote industries such as mining and distributed power generation.
We recognise how important it is to have marine accidents reduced bearing in mind that fishing is statistically 13 times more dangerous than coal mining.
Mr. Sarkozy spoke of what he said were the dangers of uncontrolled immigration and radical Islam, a theme he has been mining in recent weeks in an apparent attempt to attract supporters of far-right leader Marine Le Pen, who took 17.9% of the votes in the first round of the election.
One risk is that the mining operations could generate huge plumes of sediment that could drift through the sea - choking any marine life that feeds by ingesting water and filtering out its food sources.