Leona Aglukkaq, Nunavut’s MP and Canada’s Minister of Environment, had strong words against Greenpeace in her keynote address at the Inuit Circumpolar Council’s general assembly in Inuvik, N.W.T. “Inuit were victims of misinformation and lies spread by a group that had no regard for their impact on our way of life,” she said of Greenpeace’s campaign against the seal hunt. Read more here 08:33
NILS STOLPE: The New England groundfish debacle (Part IV): Is cutting back harvest really the answer?
While it’s a fact that’s hardly ever acknowledged, the assumption in fisheries management is that if the population of a stock of fish isn’t at some arbitrary level, it’s because of too much fishing. Hence the term “overfished.” Hence the mandated knee jerk reaction of the fisheries managers to not enough fish; cut back on fishing. What of other factors? They don’t count. It’s all about fishing, because fishing is all that the managers can control; it’s their Maslow’s Hammer. When it comes to the oceans it seems as if it’s about all that the industry connected mega-foundations that support the anti-fishing ENGOs with hundreds of millions of dollars a year in “donations” are interested in controlling. Read the article here
Greenpeace’s unjust attacks on sealing destroyed their credibility in the North, justifiably. The disrespect shown to Inuit by the anti sealing activists is disgusting and hypocritical. It may not be that the Inuit have been so mislead as some may think, though. I am no friend of Greenpeace, they have to do a lot to redeem themselves for their unjust antisealing attacks in Canada. But the Inuit also know that they will have no say in fracking if some Southern company with the right political connections wants to do it. Perhaps the Inuit see cooperation with Greenpeace as a way to get some recompense for the damage Greanpeace’s anti sealing activities have been by getting some kind of protection from the powers that be.