Ravenwood - 11/02/05 06:45 AM
Couldn't happen to a nicer group of environmentalist wackos.
Environmental group Greenpeace has been fined almost $7,000 for damaging a coral reef at a World Heritage site in the Philippines, according to BBC news.Meanwhile the AP spins the fine as Greenpeace "has agreed to compensate the park".Their flagship Rainbow Warrior II ran hit Tubbataha Reef Marine Park, in the Sula Sea, 650km (400 miles) south-east of Manila.
Park officials say almost 100 sq m (1,076 sq ft) of reef had been damaged.
Greenpeace agreed to pay the fine, but blamed the accident on outdated maps provided by the Philippines government.
Category: Schadenfreude
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I bet if France sunk more Greenpeace ships they'd be a lot more popular.
Posted by: Alcibiades at November 2, 2005 11:42 AMSo, we can name the next hurricane after them. CO2 uptake destroyed. People died.
Posted by: mikem at November 2, 2005 7:08 PMHah it some out the real hypocracy at GREENPEACE while they yammer about this global warming nonsense while they run around interfering in naval manuvers and worry about whales then they do this what a whole lot of outright fruad by the GREENPEACE pests i mean everywhere they go they create a problem they should call themselves GREENPESTS
Posted by: screaming eagle at November 2, 2005 9:59 PM$7000 of my mum's money. Or ex-money.
Gosh darn it (always wanted to say that).
Posted by: DaveJ at November 3, 2005 5:10 AMHow about compensating the little corals whose home was devastated? Drop coral treats or something.
Posted by: Ron Hardin at November 3, 2005 8:56 AMYou can actually do that. Reefs can be formed by as easily dumping a bunch of really large objects in line into the water so fish and other critters start to colonize them. Not sure how the process works but N.G. did a special on the army using out dated tanks to make a reef.
I vote for taking any and all greenpeace property and personnell and using them to make reefs.
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