Shane Rattenbury
Shane Rattenbury
Shane Stephen Rattenbury, Australian politician and former Speaker of the ACT Legislative Assembly, is a member of the multi-member unicameral Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly representing the electorate of Molonglo for the ACT Greens since 2008. He was the first Speaker in any Parliament in the world representing a Green political party...
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Every hour that the fleet is on the run, more whales will live.
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The Fisheries Agency of Japan, the ICR and the whaling fleet are out of control. The hunt is bankrupt on all counts: scientifically, ecologically, morally and financially. With the market for whale meet in Japan collapsing and stock piles rising, it is clear that the whaling business is bad. Over the coming months we will be calling on consumers world-wide to join us in telling the companies that whaling is bad for business. Not everyone can join us on the high seas to defend the whales but they can join us on the high streets.
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In a world were international public opinion is ignored and where high level diplomatic pressure has failed, Greenpeace hopes that consumers can once and for all demonstrate that there is no profit in whaling.
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We've had a number of occasions where individual whales have escaped because we have driven our inflatable boats between the harpooner and the whale.
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We are bringing the campaign back to the land... there is no place for whaling in the 21st century.
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We're making an assessment of our food and fuel and our own energy levels, it's very exhausting being in small boats in such a hostile environment.
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There is definitely an increasing level of tensions down here and the harpooners are certainly starting to take shots that perhaps a week or two weeks ago they would not have taken.