A sad organization that can't even follow its own guidelines... Greenpeace’s iconic ‘Rainbow Warrior’ ship chopped up on third-world beach, sold for scrap https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/...opped-up-on-third-world-beach-sold-for-scrap/ Greenpeace quietly admitted in November one of its “Rainbow Warrior” boats was “scrapped on a beaching yard in Bangladesh” — a method it spent years campaigning against. “We have made a mistake, one that we have tried to correct,” Greenpeace International, based in Amsterdam, admitted in mid-November, adding it allowed Rainbow Warrior II “to be scrapped on a beaching yard in Bangladesh, in a way that does not live up to the standards we set ourselves and campaigned with our allies to have adopted across the world.” However, the embarrassing admission from one of the world’s largest and most prominent environmental groups flew under the radar of major news outlets. Greenpeace quietly put out a press release on its international website, which few noticed. Greenpeace International did not respond to The Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment Indeed, Rainbow Warrior II’s fate is only the latest in a string of embarrassments and scandals to plague Greenpeace in recent years, including admitting in 2014 it had lost millions in donations betting on currency speculation. That same year, Greenpeace came under fire from the Peruvian government for damaging the ancient Nazca Lines. Activists damaged the world-famous site with giant protest banners advocating for solar energy and calling for countries to fight global warming. The iconic Rainbow Warrior put Greenpeace in the headlines protesting nuclear weapons testing in the late 1970s. French special forces sunk the original Rainbow Warrior boat in New Zealand in 1985. However, the group got another boat, which it used for over 20 years to protest whaling, fishing and nuclear tests. Ironically, Greenpeace’s Rainbow vessels were powered by two large diesel engines as well as a sail. Critics relentlessly pointed out the group’s hypocrisy for using oil while simultaneously campaigning against its extraction. Greenpeace gave its replacement Rainbow Warrior II boat to the Bangladeshi non-profit Friendship in 2011 after it was deemed no longer fit for high-seas travel. Friendship used the boat as a floating hospital for years until 2018. As part of its agreement with Friendship, Greenpeace retained veto rights over how the ship would be disposed. Friendship sold Rainbow Warrior II to a Bangladeshi beaching yard where it would be scrapped using a method they spent years campaigning against. Greenpeace, after initially approving of this plan, publicly backtracked in mid-November. Rainbow Warrior II was hauled into a beach where it “readied to be cut up” and sold as scrap. Environmental groups have campaigned against these sorts of beach shipyards for years. The 61-year-old Rainbow Warrior II boat was disposed of “in a way that does not live up to the standards we set ourselves and campaigned with our allies to have adopted across the world,” Greenpeace admitted in its mid-November statement. “We should have consulted our partners in the NGO Shipbreaking Platform and the Basel Action Network, we did not. No excuse. We should have,” Greenpeace International said. Greenpeace’s admission went completely unnoticed by major media outlets until Friday when the German-language newspaper Der Spiegel published a scathing article on the debacle. “The numerous toxins in the ships, such as asbestos or PCB, get unhindered into the environment,” Der Spiegel’s Nicolai Kwasniewski wrote. Kwasniewski added that Greenpeace tried to “minimize the damage as long as possible” and is “now negotiating with PHP to bring the very toxic materials from the Rongdhonu to a country where they can be disposed of properly.” (More embarrassing Greenpeace revelations at above url)
Kind of like conservatives who get abortions for their mistresses. Or conservatives who hire illegal aliens. Or conservatives who buy Chinese goods over American ones. Or conservatives who promote massive government deficits.
You are right. One is a third party organization that realized they made a mistake - probably as their boat was sold from brokerage firm to brokerage firm. The other are actual politicians you follow blindly.
Nice try again. But that scam organization knows exactly what’s going on. That’s why their co-founder left decades ago after it became nothing more than a money grab. —————— “They have become a corporate fundraising machine. Losing money on investment speculation is nothing new for organizations of their size,” Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore told The Daily Caller News Foundation. Moore left the group in the late 1980s after deciding it became too radical. “But it is their hypocrisy on policy that shows them to be unworthy,” Moore said. “They tell us rot ‘quit our addiction to oil’ and then attack a Russian oil platform with a diesel-powered ship. Now it is revealed their executive is commuting 600 kilometers by plane.” ———————— Oh my the hypocrisy. Can you imagine if Mr. “Global Warming” Gore ever commuted thousands of miles by plane to plant a tree or if he lived in a mega mansion or...oh wait. Ummm never mind.
Is Al Gore a part of Greenpeace? Greenpeace has certainly changed from its founding. It became more anti-corporation rather than pro-environmental. That doesn’t discount their response to this particular issue. You could have quoted Moore from many sources other than the dailycaller but I guess that’s where you get your news. No response to conservatives being hypocrites. If you acknowledged that then you would have to acknowledge your own hypocritically.
1- I quoted directly from the hyperlink in the article. I don’t even know what the Daily Caller is. But now I assume it’s a far right website? 2- Conservatives are hypocrites as well. The Bible thumpers being some of the worst.
Supporters of beaching method of ship scrapping claim victory after Greenpeace’s faux pas https://www.thehindubusinessline.co...fter-greenpeaces-faux-pas/article25536252.ece