Now there is an environmental crisis in a marine park.

[Guest Peeves]

Now there is an environmental crisis over the threat of a major oil leak from a tour ship, will tour ships be picketed by the Suzuki crowd?

Or is it only the threat from an oil pipeline that's to be concerned about?

Seems to me the environmental advocacy crowd is verrrrry selective in their concerns for contamination.

They avoid Nuclear disaster sites who wouldn't... They ignore open pit coal mines, tailing pools, slides and acid rain, they ignore off shore drilling spills, and huge oil tankers, but a pipe line is targeted en mass. Ever wonder why? I do.

http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-01-21/news/30650681_1_sea-fuel-marine-life

Where are the environmentalists this 'park' should be off limits to tour boats?

Don't you think the potential for contamination here is more likely than on a 'possible' oil pipeline leak?

Edited January 22, 2012 by Peeves

[Michael Hardner]

There's no link here - so what are we supposed to comment on ?

[Guest Peeves]

There's no link here - so what are we supposed to comment on ?

Sorry about that.

The threat of disasters are with us every day, in every energy source, but demonstrations are selectively chosen and I ask why? Who are really behind demonstrations?

Truncated from link in OP.

If the Concordia's fuel should pollute the sea, ``Giglio will be dead for 10, 15 years,'' Teodori fretted, as workers nearby shellacked the hull of an aging fishing boat.

The international ocean-advocacy group, Oceana, describes the national marine park as an ``ecological diamond,'' favored by divers for its great variety of species.

``If the pollution gets into the water, we are ruined,'' said Raffaella Manno, who with her husband runs a portside counter selling fresh fish in Porto Santo Stefano, a nearby town where ferries and hydrofoils depart for Giglio.

She said fish from the archipelago's waters are prized throughout Italy for their quality and variety.

[waldo]

Now there is an environmental crisis over the threat of a major oil leak from a tour ship, will tour ships be picketed by the Suzuki crowd?

Or is it only the threat from an oil pipeline that's to be concerned about?

Seems to me the environmental advocacy crowd is verrrrry selective in their concerns for contamination.

rather than fabricate an issue and expose your underlying bias, why not spend a few googly cycles to save yourself further embarrassment, hey? Italian marine conservation interests have long raised concerns over cruise-ship practices along the Italian coast... in this particular case it is suspected the ship's captain deliberately altered course to hug the coastline... to perform a so-called "salute" to "amuse passengers and islanders"... apparently, a long established practice in this and other coastal locations.

[Guest Peeves]

rather than fabricate an issue and expose your underlying bias, why not spend a few googly cycles to save yourself further embarrassment, hey? Italian marine conservation interests have long raised concerns over cruise-ship practices along the Italian coast... in this particular case it is suspected the ship's captain deliberately altered course to hug the coastline... to perform a so-called "salute" to "amuse passengers and islanders"... apparently, a long established practice in this and other coastal locations.

Admittedly I'm exploiting a situation for my own ends, but hardly fabricating anything.

The potential for a disaster exists from every energy source. From anything like a ship, train, or tanker truck. From a super tanker to an airplane.

It would be nice if we had sufficient hydro-electric or solar power, but we don't. Until we have no need for coal, oil or nuke energy let's accept that there will be accidents and near disasters as the Exxon Valdez or the Japanese Nuke plant or Chernobyl.

My point is not a bias at all. My point is the selective demonstrations while ignoring the danger of any energy source. I'm using this example only to show how a ship in a marine park is a potential disaster as is a nuke facility, an oil platform, a coal mine etc.

I profit naught at the operation of any of them, but I get pissed when one is singled out while others are ignored. I suggest there is financial support from sources to demonstrators on the pipelines, but that's no skin off my ass.

BUT WHERE IS THE FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR OIL LINE DEMONSTRATORS COMING FROM?

Sounds to me with a moratorium on off shore drilling and demonstrations on oil pipelines, someone stands to be profiting. Just another conspiracy theory huh?

[waldo]

Admittedly I'm exploiting a situation for my own ends

yes, yes you are. Your selective exploitation is as selective as your self-serving statements on those groups/individuals who do raise... legitimate, past, active and ongoing... concerns over environmental impacts. You're quite obviously caught up in the raised pipeline profile given Harper Conservative manipulation - how does it feel?

[Guest Peeves]

yes, yes you are. Your selective exploitation is as selective as your self-serving statements on those groups/individuals who do raise... legitimate, past, active and ongoing... concerns over environmental impacts. You're quite obviously caught up in the raised pipeline profile given Harper Conservative manipulation - how does it feel?

Feels fine. I face the reality of the need for oil, energy sources , the hazards they bring and the phoney baloney celebrity and funded demonstrators that are so selective in their concerns.