No bities?? Ok bad pun......

Finally, thanks Paul but your a nice bloke :)no scrapping with you...

More night shift bordum!!

 Where are you at Tim?

This is on Twitter Perth news quite a bit. Start choosing your petrol stations who look after you.

Worth a read.

The obvious question is: why is an oil company channeling dollars to save sharks?The answer: it was a strategy to improve the oil company’s image. Greenwashing! Oil corporations reinvented themselves as energy corporations keen to push their environmental credentials. BP, British Petroleum,(remember the Deepwater Horizon debacle and subsequent coastal devastation?) They changed their company logo to the eco-friendly yellow and green sunburst. (How cute!) Pew were not just the benevolent green face of Sunoco. They founded SeaWeb. One of the first things SeaWeb did was commission a survey to discover which ocean issue would best engage the public. The results told SeaWeb that 81% of Americans thought oil spills were a very serious problem. (“Overfishing” wasn’t even on the radar). Negative attention was diverted from oil companies to fisheries, (thanks to the eco-shark agenda, funded by PEW.)

http://sharkmanofcortez.com/shark-protection-its-all-about-oil/

This is on Twitter Perth news quite a bit. Start choosing your petrol stations who look after you.

Worth a read.

The obvious question is: why is an oil company channeling dollars to save sharks?The answer: it was a strategy to improve the oil company’s image. Greenwashing! Oil corporations reinvented themselves as energy corporations keen to push their environmental credentials. BP, British Petroleum,(remember the Deepwater Horizon debacle and subsequent coastal devastation?) They changed their company logo to the eco-friendly yellow and green sunburst. (How cute!) Pew were not just the benevolent green face of Sunoco. They founded SeaWeb. One of the first things SeaWeb did was commission a survey to discover which ocean issue would best engage the public. The results told SeaWeb that 81% of Americans thought oil spills were a very serious problem. (“Overfishing” wasn’t even on the radar). Negative attention was diverted from oil companies to fisheries, (thanks to the eco-shark agenda, funded by PEW.)

http://sharkmanofcortez.com/shark-protection-its-all-about-oil/

I avoid buying petrol from BP any more especially for my boat:

"Pew Charitable Trusts called for a National Ocean Policy for the US outer continental shelf. The policy they wrote became law. Top of the list was zoning large areas of sea floor for the purpose of leasing them to corporations for energy production (Offshore DRILLING!)

It’s a very clever way of rapidly privatising the ocean and effectively becoming the sea’s landlord! Shark conservation, as funded by Pew, appears to be greenwash buffering an oil corporation looking to increase their real estate portfolio. It’s a land grab that can be leased, regulated and exploited, if, when, and as they wish, for the benefit of their stock holders.

The problem is that the Pew money machine provided a seemingly endless supply of cash and those who drank from this fountain of wealth became empowered to turn their every wish into reality. They became so adept at revving up the media engine that the science became secondary to their ability to spread their frantic message in ever widening circles.

Ultimately the Pew engine was positioned so far in front of the boat that all ocean science became tainted by Pew science and the best available science was constrained by the only available science. The mantra that “the oceans would soon be running out of fish” reverberated so often that Pew science only needed to fund those programs which were in search of the next great marine crisis to make their agenda the law of the land (and Sea).

With so much money being pumped through the Pew system, other sources of funding either dried up or were overwhelmed by the shear force of the Pew Ocean’s agenda. Over time, it no longer became necessary for anyone to read the policy papers that Pew directly or indirectly funded. Once you knew the title and saw the first paragraph, you would know which slice of the supposedly ever-shrinking pie you were being served on a silver platter.

http://fisherynation.com/pews-conquest-ocean

Basically sharks are being used to create no fishing zones, dividing them up for oil, dive businesses, glass bottom boat business.

Any old excuse to kick fishermen out where fish live.

Green Gate- U.S. National Ocean Policy Is A Tool To Lease Tracts of Ocean To Corporations Creating Ocean Real Estate

http://jjthefisherman.newsvine.com/_news/2011/04/21/6508934-green-gate-us-national-ocean-policy-is-a-tool-to-lease-tracts-of-ocean-to-corporations-creating-ocean-real-estate

Eagle Andy...

I just had 4 months off after a construction gig so thought best get back to it, you been out for Hal at all?

Tim

Yep she's the flagship in Oz....