Posted on 09/15/2004 5:31:08 AM PDT by OESY
Environmental regulations are notoriously difficult to keep up with, what with all the paperwork and communication required. Just ask Greenpeace.
The radical environmental group and habitual filer of lawsuits is learning how the other side feels after prosecutors in Alaska filed criminal charges against it for violating state environmental laws. It seems a Greenpeace boat, the Arctic Sunrise, entered Alaskan water without the required oil spill prevention plan and proof of financial responsibility should a spill occur. The vessel, which can carry 128,000 gallons of fuel and lubricants (Exxon Valdez, anyone?), was sailing near Ketchikan to protest logging activities.
The state charges that when the environmental group was notified of the violations on July 14, the ship's agent agreed to remain anchored until the situation was fixed. Instead, the Arctic Sunrise left port that very morning and went joyriding in "environmentally sensitive areas during peak salmon runs, without care or consideration for the catastrophic impacts that would occur from failure to have the necessary resources to initiate a response." The case goes to trial in October.
As for Greenpeace, it sounds, well, positively corporate in its explanations. The organization pleaded not guilty at its arraignment. But it has also blamed its decision to go sailing on a communications mishap and noted that a "clerical error" was behind its lack of proper documentation. According to the Washington Legal Foundation, a lawyer for Greenpeace was also quoted as saying that environmental regulations are "getting to be more complicated in this day and age."...
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Wait, LAWS do not APPLY to the LIBERALS...do they?
If so, Klintoon would be in the slammer for Perjury.
Hitlery for whacking Vince.
Sandy "Sticky fingers" Berger would be in jail for theft of classified documents.
Torricelli for mob bribes and kickbacks...
snicker
What a waste to clog our court system with such petty stuff. I'd have just raked their bridge with some .50.
Why did John kerry allow the boat to sail?
I almost snorted my orange juice out my nose. bawhahaha
For the first time ever, I find myself wishing there had been an oil spill.
Hope they sink PING.
Good for Alaska. Even bad law must apply eaqually to all so "green-piece" should not be an exception.
Rub-a-dub-dub
Three commies in tub
Lo! from around a nub
Comes a US Navy sub
Rub-a-dub-dub
Three commies sunk in a tub
Here's a good rule of thumb: If the "environmentalists" are for it, oppose it. If they're against it, support it.
hahahahaha .tooooooooo funny
Didn't French marines take out a Greenpeace boat once? A re-run showing that the U.S.M.C. can do it even better sounds like fun.
Dumb watermelons.
Well, don't repeat our mistake, then : don't do it in the harbour of a friendly country !
Good start.
OH the irony!
Rights, farms, environment ping.
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BTTT!!!!!!
Some folks are just above the law or they think they are. Perhaps those are the ones we should hang by the neck as high as we can, so all can see them.
They have gotten lost in their own self righteousness.
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