@5 I don't think that the negative postings are anti- environmentalist, I don't think that the City Council is going to be the deciding factor if Shell continues to drill. Just because they parked their rigs here for the winter, everyone is going berserk about drilling. It's not going to stop. As soon as the rigs leave everyone will go back to normal, driving their cars around, heating their homes with oil, and mowing lawns with gas powered machines, smacks of hypocrisy to me.
Drilling and burning Arctic oil is incompatible with a 2°C maximum global temperature rise in this century. It's crazy that we even have to send this letter, but if (Seattleite) Sally Jewell as fixing to let Shell loose in the Chukchi Sea to drill and spill then we should definitely send this letter. We should also oppose the harboring of Shell's arctic fleet in our harbor by other means.
The city has permitted the use of Terminal 5 by the port for the loading and unloading of cargo ships. The Port commissioners knew that they were ducking an environmental review for other uses and they shouldn't be allowed to do so. Having Shell-fucking-oil skirting a meaningful public review of their environmental practices should ring every alarm bell in even the dimmest skull.
Jesus Table-Flipping Christ, I guess we do get the government we deserve.
This is a bit like holding the school board responsible for the Iraq war.
Sure are a lot of anti-environmentalists around here lately. Or maybe just cynical assholes.
Even if they succeed and the drilling ships don't dock in Seattle; nothing significant has changed.
Drilling won't stop. Oil exploration will continue.
Will Seattle enviro's feel better because they don't have to look at it?
If you didn't, get a clue. http://www-tc.pbs.org/independentlens/cl…
The city has permitted the use of Terminal 5 by the port for the loading and unloading of cargo ships. The Port commissioners knew that they were ducking an environmental review for other uses and they shouldn't be allowed to do so. Having Shell-fucking-oil skirting a meaningful public review of their environmental practices should ring every alarm bell in even the dimmest skull.
Jesus Table-Flipping Christ, I guess we do get the government we deserve.