Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Breaking news – Greenpeace have stormed an oil rig being towed to Seattle.
According to The Guardian;
Six Greenpeace activists protesting Arctic offshore drilling on Monday boarded a drill rig as it was transported across the Pacific Ocean toward Seattle, where it will be staged for drilling on Shell leases in Alaska waters.
The 400ft (122 meter) Polar Pioneer, owned by Transocean Ltd, was on board a heavy-lift vessel about 750 miles (1,206 km) northwest of Hawaii when the activists approached in inflatable boats and used climbing gear to get on board, Greenpeace spokesman Travis Nichols said.
They plan to unfurl a banner in protest of Arctic offshore drilling but have no plans to interfere with the ship’s navigations, he said.
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Shell USA spokeswoman Kelly Op De Weegh said by email that Greenpeace protesters illegally boarded the vessel, called the Blue Marlin, jeopardising their safety and that of the crew.
Greenpeace appear to have stepped up activity against arctic petroleum interests recently, with an attempt on 25th March this year to board a Russian oil tanker Mikhail Ulyanov, while it was docked in Hamburg. This is not the first time Greenpeace have targeted the Mikhail Ulyanov – Greenpeace also targeted the tanker in May 2014, while it was delivering oil to Rotterdam.
Greenpeace seem happy to conduct protests against all parties operating in the Arctic, including Russian businesses – though so far Greenpeace appear to be avoiding Russian controlled territory, presumably to prevent a repeat of the 2013 Arctic Sunrise fiasco.
Go after Greenpeace under RICO- no corporate shielding, personal liability of all parties involved, and those who commit crimes on the high seas should be treated no differently than Somali pirates.
Damn the Russians. They had a chance to set (re-establish) the standard by hanging the bunch of pirates. Now Kumi Naidoo feels he has carte blanche to send this bunch of brainless idiots wherever he’s paid to. They have attacked ships, buildings, pipelines and refineries. They have defiled and vandalized sacred sites. They have staged illegal protests and blockades that resulted in injuries and arrests. Enough already. The police will not or cannot stop these illegal actions because of political intervention. The MSM treat most of these criminals as though they were the modern day version of Robin Hood. It’s time our elected representatives grew a pair and stopped worrying about what’s political correct. They must ensure the police maintain the peace.
Storming an oil rig?
What’s the matter, don’t they have a World Heritage Site to deface?
+10
With the president we have in office these maroons will never be convicted of any crime.
He’s not suitably motivated in this case.
Now if they had seen fit to make a You-Tube they’d be banged up in a thrice…
bugger…typo…”You-Tube Video”
What kind of maroons? I like the pink ones even if they are a little sweet but they go well with coffee.
When a boat load of red paint collides with a boatload of blue paint, the sailors get marooned.
I think that the captain/owners made a serious mistake in not declaring a mayday for being boarded by pirates which would oblige all nearby ships to their location and more importantly require the U.S. coast guard to resond. I am sure that they have specialized troops to handle barding a hostile vessel if not i am sure the marines or navy would be happy to lend them.
Where’s Putin when you need him?
Throw the book at them.
Corporate America needs to cowboy up and cut off their money supply and go after Greenpeace in every legal venue available.
Greenpeace fat cats have gotten rich off of their greenmail scams long enough. Shut them down.
There should be a prison for them that has no product derived from our carbon based economy. I believe mud huts and food gathering is where they would end up. Good riddance.
Sounds like a lot of ‘heroic’ fun. Sailing across the northern pacific ocean, stealthily chasing, ‘attacking’, boarding, centre of attention and all that. Then plenty of ‘moral-high-ground’ tales of daring do when they return.
No wonder this Saving The Planet lark is so popular. #CompleteTossers
They plan to unfurl a banner in protest of Arctic offshore drilling but have no plans to interfere with the ship’s navigations,……
…..then tow their happy A$$es to Alaska.
Greenpeace and the other NGOs are running out of time to ride the CAGW express. Will Greenpeace protest solar caused global cooling?
Will 350.org celebrate and note mission accomplished when atmospheric CO2 anomalously drops below 350 ppm when the planet cools?
Will the Nobel Prizes for the ‘discovery’ of global warming be rescinded when observations prove that the majority of the warming in the last 150 years was due to solar changes, rather than the rise in atmospheric CO2?
Global cooling is on the way, due to the current abrupt change to sun. Record regionally cold temperatures is the first sign of cooling climate change (We are going to have a chance to see how solar changes cause Dansgaard-Oeschger cycle cooling) – record monthly cold temperatures, record sea ice in the Antarctic, record snowfall and anomalously cold temperatures on the Greenland ice sheet and so on are observational evidence that the pause in warming is over and the planet has started to cool . We ain’t seen nothing yet, based on the severity of cooling that has occurred in the paleo record when there was an abrupt change to the solar cycle.
http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog
Must be a bit too chilly in Siberia this year then!
To the best of my knowledge, Seattle is not in the Arctic.
No, but Alaska is and that is the end destination for the drilling rig.
Depends on what part of Alaska, some parts are only a few miles north of Seattle.
The article clearly states “Shell leases” in Alaska waters.
Their sign says “The People” versus Shell. I don’t remember signing up as one of “the people” so they need to change that sign to “Green Peace versus Shell”. Just another environmental “Big Lie”.
http://www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_large/public/headlines/people_vs_shell.jpg?itok=_r6XyG59
The banner looks to be made of plastic. Oh the irony.
Make them walk the plank.
All Greenpeace members should be placed on the TSA’s No Fly list (oh, the ironing!).
All Greenpeace members should be placed in the NICS list.
Oh how I love oil.
I’m about to go cycling on a beautiful afternoon here on the northern Oregon coast. At the moment my chain is sitting in a luxurious hot bath of paraffin wax on the stove in a double boiler. When I’m done with my tea, I’ll take my chain out, wipe if with a paper towel, let it cool for a few minutes, slap it on my bike, and be off.
If any of you cyclists out there have never used paraffin, I encourage you to give it a go. It’s quick, easy, clean, silent, doesn’t attract and hold grit, plus your bike looks sexy all the time … chicks really notice.
(Cue Janice in three, two, one … 😉
I wonder what would happen if a bunch of oil industry execs were to storm the Greenpeace offices?
… in protest of our Patchouli oil dependence …
If a group of blokes in black suits ‘stormed’ the Esperanza, camped out on her bow leaving bags of shit lying around, unfurled a banner saying “The Real People vs Greenpeace”, accused Greenpeace of genocide for their anti-reliable/affordable energy stance and began twitting about how heroic it all was; I doubt the crew would be very civil or restrained about it.
And no doubt the Green-pr!cks website would be full of indignation and calls for more donations to stop the blatant violation of innocent, peaceful vessels on the open sea by single-minded hooligans with no respect for other people’s property, oh, wait a minute…
Erny, you are 100% right! I’d love to see it done though. 🙂
Declare Greenpeace to be a terrorist organisation and confiscate its assets.
When I was attacked by South China Sea pirates in the early 1970s I kept the fire pumps running and my Officers had orders to fill any approaching boat with water.
Worked very well.
Only down point was once when we were at anchor off a port and a boat appeared out of the night mist my 3rd. Mate filled it with water only to find it was the Port Police patrol.
The Police thought it was a great joke.
But every vessel, once in a while, uses the fire hose to wash any dirt on board off into the sea.
Maybe this un-named heavy lift vessel should do that now.
“Six Greenpeace terrorists boarded a drill rig as it was transported across the Pacific Ocean toward Seattle, where it will be staged for drilling on Shell leases in Alaska waters.”
There, fixed it for ya.
The ends justify the means. Committing criminal activity is just par for the course because WE WILL ALL DIE otherwise. Well at least that’s what they believe. Not much different to those who think the End Times are just around the corner. Green is just a cult religion.
Jeez, folks.
I had to work today out in the field and away from this interweb thingy, but I am still shocked that after 178 comments in about 8 hours, there has been no (ZERO) carry over knowledge from our last lesson and so I am forced now to be the one:
!! Climate Change Causes Piracy !!
fixed and don’t forget . . .
If there’s one important point here it’s the need to follow the money and find the financial backers of these pirates. They are the real crooks. Cut off the funding and the ‘protesters’ melt away.