Greenpeace to pay fine for damaging Philippine reef

Yahoo News ^ | 11/1/05 | Rueters

[Kimmers]

MANILA (Reuters) - Greenpeace said on Tuesday it will pay nearly $7,000 in damages after the environmental group's flagship, the Rainbow Warrior II, hit a coral reef at a world heritage site in the southern Philippines.

[Kimmers]

You have to love the irony of it all.....

[Thebaddog]

Seems too low.

[EagleUSA]

GreenPeace, like all the other liberal-radical so-called "environmentalists" -- are hypocrites. They should pay a HUGE fine for their hypocrisy.

[Parley Baer]

I agree, the fine is to low. It should be raised by a factor of 100.

[GrandEagle]

at a world heritage site
U.N. Owned waters.....
Dangerous...very dangerous. This recognizes the U.N. as a keeper of things.
Couldn't have happened to a better gang of thugs, but it still recognizes authority that shouldn't exist.

[Kimmers]

I remember a Rush caller told of the Sierra club clear cutting land to make an air strip to land their airplanes, all because they wanted to go white water rafting.

[RhoTheta]

They blame their problem on a faulty chart. I'm not a sailor, but I read Sail and other magazines regularly and it would seem that they have the responsibility of keeping a lookout when entering these kinds of water, and watching their depth sounder.

[painter]

keeping a lookout when entering these kinds of water, and watching their depth sounder.

I have sailed the Carribean several times. You are right you keep a close watch on your dept guage plus having someone on the bow watching.

[varyouga]

How can they put a price on the reef? These Greenpeace clowns should be paying everything they earn for the rest of their lives. Ooops, I forgot, they don't earn anything except French welfare checks.

[DoughtyOne]

World Heritage site? What's wrong with this picture?

If anything this is a Phillipine heritage site. The U.N. has no right to claim this as their enclave.

[DoughtyOne]

Greenpeace is nothing much more than a group of people who have agreed to network while existing in a state of quasi-insanity.

[BlueStateDepression]

I read about this happening and thought the same thing...OH the Irony. I loved how in their way of taking responsibility, that is to say.... agreeing to pay the fines, they STILL find a way to blame mapmakers.

[Kimmers]

"STILL find a way to blame mapmakers."

The left never takes responsibility, they usually blame someone else. We all are guilty of that but it seems it is never the lefts fault.....

[Libertarian444]

          

[Kimmers]

LOL