. Posted on 08/28/2012 5:48:35 AM PDT by Freelance Warrior
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Activists protesting at Arctic oil drilling were thrown into the freezing Pechora Sea this morning by Russian sailors working for oil giant Gazprom.
14 activists from 10 countries attached themselves and their boats to the anchor chain of the Anna Akhmatova in order to prevent it from sailing out to the Prirazlomnaya oil platform.
When the first officer sought orders from management in Moscow he was told to “use any means at your disposal to continue operations," according to Greenpeace. At 5am this morning, he ordered two Gazprom ships to train high-pressure water cannons onto the Greenpeace inflatable boats.
Their occupants were washed out of the boats, and thrown into icy water some distance away. They were rescued and are safe, and not long afterwards the action was called off.
The Prirazlomnaya is the first permanent oil platform in the offshore Arctic and marks what Greenpeace calls “the creeping industrialization” of the Arctic. The construction phase on the platform is nearly complete, and Gazprom is eager to begin drilling and become the first oil company to commercially produce oil from the offshore Arctic.
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they were forced to retreat when their last boat was pulled vertically out of the water spilling the crew into the frigid waters below.
Everyone is now safely back aboard the Greenpeace ship. Everyone has limits and these people have now reached theirs.
You know the world has gone mad when the Russians are the ones fighting the communists in favor of progress and capitalism while the US kisses the rear ends of every commie whackjob outfit there is.
BOO freakin’ HOO. Good for the Rooskies.
Lesson learned. Too bad the fish had to smell them too. Wonder where they got all the money for those nice boats?
Pray for America
I just checked, and it turns out my “give a damn” tank is completely empty. First bath these hippies have probably had in a decade.
Unlike the Western World, the Russians don't put up with this crap, the protesters should count themselves lucky that Russia didn't turn the machine guns on them...
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Sucks to be them.
Greenpeace will go back to simply annoying US companies and organizations instead.
They will never do this to any Russian Platform again
You know the world has gone mad when the Russians are the ones fighting the communists in favor of progress and capitalism while the US kisses the rear ends of every commie whackjob outfit there is.
Russians know how to deal with activists.
Didn’t need to do that ~ in water that temperature all the Russians had to do was delay rescue for 20 minutes or so and they’d all been dead anyway.
The Greencommies have already stopped our drilling so they have to go after Russia. Time to put a bounty on these dirt worshipers.
A good Dunking will teach them a lesson.
Like I said in another thread about these losers, you don’t mess with the Russians. Ever. Period.
‘You know the world has gone mad’ when you think, ‘Maybe we should move to Russia.’
Agreed Tomkat!
Stinking liberal hippies with no clue and no real jobs just mucking things up. The Russians know how to deal with these idiots. I strongly suspect these jerks will stick to harassing organizations from Western nations who will “respect” them even though they refuse to respect others.
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