Protesters foil trawler's plans (NZ)

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Greenpeace activists use wire cables to tie the trawl doors together on the bottom trawler Ocean Reward. Picture / Greenpeace

09.06.05
By Anne Beston

Greenpeace activists were spared further use of a potato gun but copped angry words from fishers in a dramatic high seas protest over bottom trawling yesterday.

Greenpeace vessel the Rainbow Warrior is tailing New Zealand trawler Ocean Reward more than 500km off the coast of New Plymouth over a fishing practice it says is destroying life in the deep sea.

"It's a race against time to stop bottom trawlers wiping out life in the deep sea before we even know what's down there," said a campaigner on board the Warrior, Carmen Gravatt. <snip>

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[NNadir]

1. What's that thing on the back of the raft?

Is it an Evinrude?

That's a big motor. What do they fuel it on? Is it solar powered? Whattya think? Water cooled? Two cycle?

How many tons of carbon dioxide does each photograph of a Greenpeace twit pretending to give a shit about the environment take? Rather than cruise around in daddy's boats chasing down working people, might they not better serve the environment by distributing condoms and other forms of birth control? Reforesting? Collecting waste plastic?

Nah.

It's about pretense in the age of doublespeak. It's about getting your picture taken. The Repukes ain't got nothing on the Greenpeace kids.

[struggle4progress]

2. If me concern by some technologic problem, me should only wear ..

.. blue paint of great ancestor Picts and attack always evil machine with flint ax or handstrung arrowbow, eh?