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Greenpeace Obstructs Sea Shepherd's Efforts in Antarctica On December 21, the two Greenpeace ships Esperanza and Arctic Sunrise located the Japanese whaling fleet about 240 miles from the position of the Sea Shepherd vessel Farley Mowat. They did the usual things like take pictures and hang banners. One picture of the Japanese whaling ship Nisshin Maru shows the Japanese hanging their own banner that states "Greenpeace Misleads." This is actually something that Sea Shepherd and the Japanese whalers can agree on. Greenpeace has deliberately misled Sea Shepherd and betrayed us. Shane Rattenbury, the expedition leader on the Arctic Sunrise initially refused to post the position of the Japanese fleet to prevent this information getting to Sea Shepherd. He was adamant that Sea Shepherd not find the Japanese fleet. The position was released by Greenpeace after Sea Shepherd was informed of the position from an independent source. For seven months, Captain Paul Watson has been negotiating with Greenpeace to cooperate in working together to find the Japanese whaling fleet. "Now we find that instead of cooperating, Greenpeace is being obstructionist and making efforts to deliberately keep us away from the Japanese fleet. It is a mystery to me why they would do this since they know we are capable of shutting down the Japanese whaling operations." Greenpeace has a large war chest and their ability to locate the Japanese fleet is greater because of the resources they have available to them. "The problem has been that Greenpeace has been unable to stop the Japanese after a decade of campaigns where they have chased the Japanese ships displaying their protest banners," said Captain Watson. "You would think that after a decade of expensive campaigns that Greenpeace would have realized that the Japanese fleet does not give a damn about protests. Sea Shepherd is not down here to protest, we are down here to enforce international conservation law and to stop the illegal whaling operations of Japan." The Sea Shepherd ship Farley Mowat is expected to reach the area where Greenpeace has sighted the Japanese fleet in approximately 24 hours. Captain Paul Watson, (a cofounder of Greenpeace Foundation), and Emily Hunter, (the daughter of the late Robert Hunter, the first President of the Greenpeace Foundation) are both onboard the Sea Shepherd ship Farley Mowat. They are both very disappointed that Greenpeace has decided to take a hostile position to obstruct Sea Shepherd efforts in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary in Antarctica. Emily Hunter said, "I was born and raised with Greenpeace as the daughter of Greenpeace cofounders Bob and Bobbi Hunter. This is not the Greenpeace of my parents. The people in Greenpeace who are now trying to stop us from confronting the Japanese fleet were not around back then when the first Greenpeace voyages with Paul Watson and my parents first confronted the whalers." The Sea Shepherd campaign to locate and stop the whalers continues. Sea Shepherd Conservation Society welcomes your support. To learn how to support our conservation work, please visit our donation page. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Clean water saves lives. Help make water safe for our children. http://us.click.yahoo.com/YNG3nB/VREMAA/E2hLAA/08NolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> contact owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] no flaming arguing or denigration of others allowed contact owner with complaints regarding posting/list or anything else. Thank you. please share/comment/inform and mostly enjoy this list Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quick_vegetarian/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
