With apologies to Dustin Hoffman in “The Graduate” I can’t wait to hear the fish stories that will be told to the EU trying to scam money from this latest idea:
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Anyone want to place bets now on how quickly we’ll see abuse of this?
The new trend in fishing: raiding garbage cans at night. h/t to WUWT reader AnonyMoose
IMF, ECB and EU certify that energy sustainability = fiscal non sustainability
http://notrickszone.com/2011/05/05/wmf-ecb-and-eu-certify-that-energy-sustainability-fiscal-non-sustainability/
Just like fishing for plastics
EU idiots at their best. The same fools whose policies are responsible for about half of all fish caught in North Sea waters being dumped back into the sea dead because they are the wrong sort of fish. It seems inescapable to me that governments throughout the world have a preponderance of people whose grip on what is real departs the moment they take office. The few who are not so afflicted make little headway against this tide.
@ur momisugly Steeptown who said:
May 5, 2011 at 10:02 am
The law of unintended consequences always comes to mind whenever the EU dreams up another scheme involving taxpayers handing subsidies over. . . . .
In Alaska they hand their monies straight over to the citizens . . . it is apportioned . . .
Alaska Royalty payments?? . . . I think that’s what they are called . . .
But, even this has it’s hazards . . . . as you can guess is the same with well fair!
You know the government is collecting too much tax when…
Well the winners will be the fishermen and the losers will be the taxpayers.
I see a future with lots of fraud….
Hopefully, there will someday be a spin-off of Deadliest Catch to help tell the tale of these future dedicated plastermen…
Voiceover, Mike Rowe: “Captain Sig returns to his pots after another 18-hour soak, hoping this time he’s landed on plastic gold…”
Sig: *smokes a cigarette, says something bitter about his brother’s complaining*
-cut to deck to watch first haul-
Mike Rowe: “The crew’s hopes…are quickly recycled back into disappointment…”
Deckhand: “No good, Sig! No good! These are all female bags and young bottles…too small to keep!”
Sig: “Dump ’em back…we’ll be back for ’em next year when they’ve grown!”
I’m not sure how well the intro would work. Rather than Bon Jovi’s “Dead or Alive,” they’ll probably have to use Dire Straits’ “Money for Nothing.”
RE: Jason F says:
May 5, 2011 at 9:17 am
“although in Scotland we eat battered deep fried mars bars so they might have a Market, eh, yum!”
I’m an ex Edinbugher/ite. When I lived there, there was one of those “we fry anything” places on A91/Queensferry Rd, near Davidson’s Mains. I shed a tear or two when on a recent visit, I discovered it had been replaced by yet another “fast food curry” place. Not that I mind a curry (and an 80 shilling ale), but still, tears were certainly shed! I digress …
I wonder how fried fishing float fragments taste? Mmmmmmm!
Side note, if I am not mistaken Fiona Harvey used to do the Financial Times’ “green” articles. Maybe she was too far around the bend for even the Times – and that is saying a lot, being that they are big cheerleaders for CO2 “credit” trading for obvious reasons.
I remember a ‘blue planet’ David Attenborough documentary where they spotted a clump of old rope/plastic and other flotsam [or jetsam?] in the middle of the Pacific – about the size of a family car. The camera went underneath and showed the most amazing collection of small creatures living there under it’s protection. Whole shoals of fry. Great habitat.
Bowen says: 9:14 a—————
It was Emily Litella who said “never mind.” Roseanne Roseannadana did not routinely say this.
And now the fishermen will be encouraging their friends to throw over more plastic. Want to bet their lunches start going over the side.
What’s that parable about hiring a gameskeeper to catch poachers. There is no percentage in him catching all of the poachers.
“If you offer a reward for something, of course you want more of it, not less. This is just the free market in action”.
see: The Legend of the Rat Farmer
ZT says:
May 5, 2011 at 9:22 am
“PS. Has anyone seen a photograph of the ‘trash island the size of Texas’ in the Pacific yet?”
Not me. You should be able to see it on Google Earth….
reason says:
May 5, 2011 at 1:56 pm
“The crew’s hopes…are quickly recycled back into disappointment…”
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What channel is this program on again?
Makes sense. They have to have some industry using all those renewable energy certificates and what better than idyllic Mediterranean fishing fleets? After all Brussells types can get a bit bored with just paintings of horses, windmills and mill streams over their mantelpieces and desire some nautical relief. With Gaia it’s all a matter of getting the balance and harmony just right.
Great idea – it will make disposal of certain types of waste much cheaper. Now, how about payment for dredging up builders rubble? That should help keep the fishing fleets even busier!
I once did a Google search for pictures of the “garbage patch”, said to be floating around in the Pacific Ocean, and found no pictures.
Is it so bad, the pictures can’t be released?
Or did I not try hard enough?
They should make a documentary about this and call it:
“Krill Bill”
Are there Wal-Marts in the UK? Because if there are, contact me, I have plenty of plastic Wal-Mart bags. Price is negotiable, hard currency only.
Take home garbage out to sea, dump home garbage, catch home garbage, return to port, get paid, repeat.
True. Roseanne’s line was “It just goes ta show ya, it’s always something”, kinda fits here.
Twenty years ago, I heard the Greens making an issue of ‘plastic pollution’. They proclaimed ‘plastic bags will not break down in a thousand years’. Since there are no thousand year-old plastic bags, I wondered how they knew that.
Twenty years later, plastic bags are broken down in the oceans. They are already in sub-millimetre sizes, and coated with accumulated salts. They are settling onto the ocean floor with the other sediments, in the process that is forming the sedimentary rocks of the future.
The Greens are now proclaiming that ‘plastic bags will not break down for ‘twenty to a thousand years’.
Nobody could make a better parody of the Green movement than they do themselves.
It is the same European Commission that made dumping dead fish back to the sea if you over caught a species. This was to ‘conserve stocks’. Instead it poisoned the sea bed with rotting fish. The idea to increase net mesh size to save the young fish was not considered.
I can see many scams with this idea but then the EU is good at scams.
I wouldn’t laugh this is what the EU gets up to every day.