Posted on 05/10/2005 3:19:43 AM PDT by FairOpinion
A jury found Greenpeace guilty Monday on two misdemeanor criminal negligence charges that were filed after the group's ship entered Alaska waters for an anti-logging campaign without required paperwork.
Greenpeace's ship came to Alaska to conduct an anti-logging campaign in the Tongass National Forest. The ship was carrying more than 70,000 gallons of "petroleum products" at the time, court papers said.
Under state law, a large non-tank vessel must file an oil spill response plan application five days before entering state waters. Greenpeace had not, but said the oversight was quickly corrected.
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The submitted plan includes the controversial technique of using shore birds to mop up any potential spill.
How come they don't use a solar powered ship?
Fine the board of directors and make the organization bleed like a clubbed baby seal.
LMAO! Or maybe old-fashioned sails?
Always nice to see a communist front group convicted of a crime, even if it's only a misdemeanor.
While it's great to see the waterlmelons nailed for something of their own making, the fact that anybody has to go through all the paperwork bullshit to run a boat really bugs me.
<< Fine the board of directors and make the organization bleed like a clubbed baby seal. >>
Yummy.
The chef at the Combined, WWO/Greenpieces/Sierra Club's Annual do told me baby seal tastes just like Platapus.
Which tastes like a cross between baby Koala and Dolphin!
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