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.
…
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.
Discover more from Watts Up With That?
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
Surprising the activists were able to catch up with the rig using their solar powered boat. Must have been a sunny day.
good one
What came first, Greenpeace terrorists or Somali pirates, or are they building on each others work? Do the Somali pirates also proclaim a selective interest in the environment to rationalize their activities?
Even the name ‘Greenpeace’ wages war on the mind.
They are neither “green” nor peaceful.
Here in Seattle, the local media have already danced to the tune played by the cell calls / video supplied by these eco facists. The real “show” begins when the rig enters the inland sound, and approaches Term 5. Lots of kayaks trying to form a blockade and/or protest. Its the kind of stuff the media really sucks up, especially on a slow news day. The local watermelons love this, it’s all they have to offer.
The irony that oil is both a naturally green and recycled product, as well as an integral nutrient in some ecosystems, is lost on the Greenpeace terrorists. They probably want more windmill gauntlets and solar ovens to disrupt the environment and civilization throughout their life cycle from recovery to reclamation.
Oh, but cats kill more birds…
/s
OK, don’t get me started on the cats again!
Debunked!
Next!
So Greenpeace is up to it’s silly stunts again. Another sign of spring.
However, the internet tough guys claiming this stunt constitutes “piracy” and advocating shooting the protesters are not doing the climate skeptics any favours.
Such over-the-top over-reactions are no different than those call to arrest, jail, and even execute “climate deniers”.
Nuts is nuts, no matter which end of the political spectrum.
http://youtu.be/DUAK7t3Lf8s
Bingo.
Illegally boarding a ship in international waters is an act of piracy. My recommendation would be water cannons, though, not firearms.
It is an act of piracy with the intent to terrorize the crew. However, other than yourself, there is only one other commenter who suggested to shoot them. Is this a projection with an intent to manipulate a response?
They should change their name to Greenterror or Greenfascists. Anyone who gives those people money should be ostracized socially.
Suggest they change course to the Bering strait . The let nature take it’s course. Still not out
the question for weather in the eastern pacific to get nasty…..
Send in some mercs and look away.
Mercs get paid… given the “look away” part it would be even easier. I think there would a whole lot of volunteers that would sign up without compensation (and provide their own transport).
So Greenpeace wants Shell to pay it more in “donations”. Not enough??? I have avoided investing Shell precisely because it tries to pay off watermelons. Doesn’t get them anywhere.
Perhaps it is time to use the same tactics on the Eco vandals and throw rocks at the panels on solar “farms”
and have balloons with serrated wire released in front of wind turbines to wrap round the blades.
We need to see severe financial penalties imposed on the Eco terrorist organisations like Greenpeace and FOE and very long sentences on its members. After all if the court accepts it is fine to use terrorist tactics for one side of an argument it is equally valid for the other.
Any doubts about the motives or objectives of Greenpeace in this little ‘adventure’ can be dispelled just by visiting their own website. There’s a secondary site which I can’t bear to link to covering the boarding. It’s all self-serving sanctimonious social media publicity BS. I nearly puked.
I never understood protests like this. Who do they expect to convince?? Anyone still on the fence I expect will be convinced by data more then emotional pleas.
About those Greenpeace activists. How about we hang ’em, and hang ’em high!!!!!
If all advocates for any cause stormed buildings, ships, vehicles, airports etc., civilization would be ruled by anarchy.
Why should these protected and well funded species be so special?
Had a double take at your photo, thought it was a solar farm tower at night.
.22 rat shot keeps ferals on the move.
what happens if one of these morons slips, snaps their neck and dies? would greenpeace sue? nah
My wife and I stopped at the Luna Park Cafe for lunch after taking the dog for a walk along Alki Beach last Easter Sunday. Saw a group of protesters going by with signs alln for the rig to be prohibit rom coming to Seattle. Peaceful group, no yelling, in fact very little spirit exhibited. In other words, not all that impressive.