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"Sea is the last great unregulated space"
Is that true Golf ?
Apr 23, 2018 at 2:30 PM | stewgreen
In many ways, yes it is!
A Country can have rules for ships owned/registered in that same country. A country can "police" shipping in its own National Water, and refuse entry to ships considered dangerous, a liability etc. A country can refuse to allow a ship to leave a harbour.
"Stopping/intercepting/searching" any ship in International Waters risks a Diplomatict Incident. Hence:
was the Belgrano sunk in a warzone?
ships smuggling drugs across the Atlantic are not intercepted until they reach Territorial Waters
Greenpeace et al exploit this for their (always filmed) publicity stunts, but may not try it on with Putin again!
"deaths at sea" even if not deemed suspicious by anyone on board, still need to be "Certified" by someone. It is one thing for a cruise liner or freighter, but can be very difficult for shorthanded yachts and the deceased's families and legal executors
there is no doubt that IT WAS accepted practice to dump rubbish at sea, including oily wastes and other chemicals. It does still happen. A slick of toxins washed up on the English Channel Coast, MAY have been dumped by a ship still in view, but it may have been dumped many days previously, and hundreds of miles away.
There are so many financial incentives for ship owners to Register their ships in Countries with the least onerous Laws.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_convenience
Ever wondered what floats the financial boats of Panama, Liberia and the Marshall Islands?!
golf charlie
Local paper of the 16 page business supplement 4 pages are about construction work on the Hornsea One big offshore windfam
stewgreen
They make their editorial as well.
stewgreen
YP front page : MP's law change plea to tackle sea pollution
Inquiry is launched into strain on world's oceans.
Oh which MP ?
Ah the excuse is Mary Creagh is the Wakefield MP
"Many people would be horrified at the emission levels of cruise ships" *
(OK flight and cruise is more CO2, but I can't name a cruise line that isn't taking vast reduction measures"
eg connecting to leccy mains whilst in port.
"Sea is the last great unregulated space"
Is that true Golf ?
@MaryCreaghMP
Today @CommonsEAC has launched a new inquiry into the future of our ocean
stewgreen
This should be funny. But not if you live in Worcester
https://order-order.com/2018/04/23/oh-mandy-7-looniest-conspiracy-theories-of-corbynista-candidate/
golf charlie
Arrive at your GreenBlob job..
stewgreen
Arrive at your GreenBlob .. retweet the BBC Bloomberg story
... a twitter search on the URL shows masses of people retweeting , most don't even add a comment
Those that do, all praise Bloom and sneer at Trump
..yet strangely universally they have no discussion under them... out of hundreds only 1 tweet has a reply
stewgreen
Apr 23, 2018 at 8:41 AM | Mark Hodgson
"Climate change: Michael Bloomberg pledges $4.5m for Paris deal"
That is very nice of him, but $4.5m won't pay for the Jet Fuel that Climate Scientists need to maintain their quality of life.
How many of them flew from the USA to Paris (return) for a single pointless party?
golf charlie
Well, this is nice:
"Climate change: Michael Bloomberg pledges $4.5m for Paris deal"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43860590
A very pro-Paris Agreement piece (surprise, surprise) with no discussion whatsoever of the problems within it. Pro-Paris, pro-Bloomberg, anti-Trump, no analysis.
Mark Hodgson
Britain’s immigration contradiction
We have the same Theresa May leading our [immigration] policy in 2018 as in 2010 – the arch political procrastinator, capitulator, and scrambler.
...
We won’t have a new prime minister until the Conservative Party puts electable policies before unelectable incumbency. The Party will need someone – like Margaret Thatcher – with the intellectual clarity and moral courage to cut through the decades-long political consensus in order to articulate rational policies.
"procrastinator, capitulator, and scrambler" sums up May well.