‘Bedwetters from overseas’: Shane Jones slams Greenpeace’s trawler protest tactics
Fisheries Minister Shane Jones has launched a blistering attack on Greenpeace labelling them “bedwetters from overseas” following their high-seas protests against commercial trawlers. But the campaigners have fired back, accusing accusing Jones and the fishing industry of “burying their heads in the sand” over the environmental damage caused by bottom trawling. The war of words highlights growing tensions between environmental groups pushing for an end to bottom trawling and a government defending the economic importance of resource-extracting industry. Jones slammed Greenpeace activists for what he called “dangerous, reckless” interference with Kiwi-owned fishing vessels, accusing them putting lives at risk during protests against two trawlers fishing off the east coast in the last week. more, >>CLICK TO READ<< 14:42
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