You're gonna need a bigger butt.

i'm liking this new stranger - more shapely derrieres, please.

The Shell Port lawsuit is not going anywhere. The rigs are parked here for the winter, not drilling, not polluting probably undergoing maintenance (good for the economy) plus the are paying a hefty price to park here. So, is this lawsuit going to stop them from drilling in the Arctic or wherever they are going? What a waste of time and taxpayer money, they will drill regardless of the pointless efforts of the Seattle "crybabies about the environment". Fuck you guys, if you have cars then sell them and ride bikes, if you use natural gas heating in your home then shut it off. I get tired of weekend environmentalists that don't follow their own advice.

Underbutt. Har har har. About the level of humor I'd expect from a frat boy flunking out of a state university.

I'm in the waste of time boat.

If they can't service the rigs here they will do it somewhere else. Maybe somewhere further away which will increase fuel usage and the potential for accidents. Might as well get the economic benefit here in Seattle.

It seems like the lawsuit boils down to 'we don't like this so we are going to make it a big pain in the ass for the port.' This is similar to anti-abortion activists who push for laws requiring admitting privileges at a hospital. It's not really about patient safety, it's just a way to prevent a practice they don't agree with. These kind of tactics are infuriating and I am against them regardless of whether I support the underlying cause.

Most of the other complaints are a variation of 'we are mad that they circumvented the public input process.' To which, the Port's honest reply would probably be 'No shit, otherwise we'll have to deal with a bunch of bullshit lawsuits that won't change anything but will ramp up our legal costs, like we are now.'

The scientific community has demonstrated that we don't need to stop fossil-fuel use overnight; we just need to begin a serious transition to cleaner, alternative energy sources the will get us to net zero greenhouse gas emissions by mid-century. So, those who argue that environmentally aware people should stop using their cars and stop burning natural gas immediately simply don't understand the science nor the economics. In a recent paper in Nature, which conducts the economic analysis to determine how we prioritize which fossil-fuel reserves should be burned and which should remain in the ground, marine oil reserves in the Arctic and the tar sands in Alberta definitely fall in the not-to-be-burned category. Therefore, Seattleites, who take pride in trying to make the world a better place for future generations should be angry that the Port of Seattle Commissioners purposely avoided public comments on this decision. Every legal means available should be taken to reverse this decision and to get the commissioners supporting this decision dismissed.