[AlaskaErik]

First these criminals decimate our logging industry and now they want to rub salt in our wounds by shutting down the last remnants of a once vibrant industry. Anyone checked the price of lumber at Home Depot or Lowe's lately? If you haven't, you're in for a huge shock. Sorry about the excerpt...I hate them, but FR made me do it.

[Billthedrill]

Hoist on one's own petard - sounds painful...

[Lurker]

"We're dealing with the issue but we're maintaining focus on the forest," said spokeswoman Mary MacNutt from the Arctic Sunrise.

You just cannot make this stuff up.

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[Bean Counter]

Are they going to impound the vessel for a while??

[James Mabry]

"It was a clerical error about paperwork and not about environmental protection," Gregory said. "We're Greenpeace. Of course we want to work within all environmental laws."

DEC Commissioner Ernesta Ballard in a statement said there was no such thing as a paperwork violation.

"Compliance is not a mere technicality. We require evidence of spill response capability because we know that any ship can hit a rock at any time," Ballard said in the statement.

Thanks for posting this. I considered posting the first article a week or so ago after they had been cited. Damn these people. "We're Greenpeace" ... Okay. Great. That makes you marxists f--ks and gives me moral obligation to see you get your ass kicked.

[strongbow]

Sometimes I really am proud to be an Alaskan! Actually for all the froggies faults they did do one thing right a few years back. When one of the greenpeas boats encroached on one of their warships they shot it out of the water. Hope it didn't leave too much of an oilslick.