Greenpeace Back in Unalaska
Monday, August 06 2012
(Maggie Wall/KMXT)
Greenpeace’s research vessel Esperanza pulled back into Unalaska this weekend. According to spokesman Joe Smyth, they’re here to resupply and switch out crew members.
Greenpeace staged a small protest in front of Shell’s Noble Discoverer drill ship yesterday and posted the photos to their Flickr feed. According to a federal injunction, Greenpeace can’t get within a kilometer of Shell’s drill ships or 500 meters of Shell’s other support vessels. The Coast Guard says they’ve had no reports of the group violating that order.
The Esperanza is back in Unalaska after a research cruise to study the Chukchi seabed near Shell’s drill sites. While exploring the seafloor in a two-person submarine,Greenpeace found unexpectedly large amounts of coral. They report that raspberry coral is the third most abundant form of sealife they came across near Shell’s drill site. Greenpeace says that Shell may have understated the concentration of corals in the environmental impact reports they filed for their drilling expedition. Shell told the Washington Post that the corals can cluster in some areas of the seabed, but they stand by their initial report.
maxzoom on Thursday, August 09 2012:
Yes overpopulation in the USA and the rest of the world(born and easy immagration into the USA) is the main reason we need more oil. Solar, wind, new technolgy power, etc power will one day hopefully replace oil consumption before our planet overwarmed.
TripleU on Monday, August 06 2012:
150,000 humans born in the USA each month who each consume about 5 barrels per year. So 150K X 12 X 5 = 9 million MORE BARRELS per Year... we already import over 1 Billion barrels per year. Lets deal with the Causes - overpopulation is the reason we need to drill more and more - AND of course - IMPORT more and more from unfriendly nations.... Drilling at Chukchi is like a bandage for the big toe when our whole body is bleeding from the open wounds caused by our daily oil consumption.
hgm on Monday, August 06 2012:
I doubt very much that they surveyed the drill sites, as those are still covered with ice.