Thursday, February 08, 2007
MISSION HARPOONED
Not only have Sea Shepherd activists failed to locate any Japanese whalers, they’ve also been slowed by global coldening:
After nearly five weeks in polar waters, the hardline activists of Sea Shepherd are set to leave the Antarctic without having found their quarry, and now are pleading with Australia to let their “pirate” ships land here ...
The Sea Shepherd vessels were halted by ice off the Australian Antarctic Territory. They are now preparing to go north but face the prospect of leaving the region empty-handed.
Their fruitless jaunt cost $2 million. We await an environmental impact report. Meanwhile, Andrew Bolt has further coldening news.
UPDATE. The attack begins:
The hardline anti-whaling activists of Sea Shepherd have found and attacked the Japanese whaling fleet off Antarctica early today.
After weeks of searching for the whalers unsuccessfully in the Ross Sea, the two Sea Shepherd vessels Robert Hunter and Farley Mowat appear to have taken the fleet by surprise ...
In their first attack, Captain Watson said his crew cleared the whale-flensing deck of the Nisshin Maru, when they threw a non-toxic “butter acid” on it from an inflatable dinghy.
That $2 million was worth it after all. Don’t expect the attacks to last long; our pirate pals are almost out of fuel.