New Zealand Demands Japan Move Crippled Whaler

[jpak]

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-aus/2007/feb/23/022307466.html

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - New Zealand demanded Friday that Japan explain why a whaling ship drifting off the Antarctic has not been moved eight days after being crippled by fire.

Conservation Minister Chris Carter said New Zealand urgently wants the whale processing vessel Nisshin Maru moved out of the area to avoid an environmental disaster if the weather deteriorates and the ship founders 135 miles north of the pristine coastline.

"That ship is still stationary in the water. It has got 1,100 tons of toxic oil in it and we want it out of there," Carter said.

Japan appears determined that the ship will leave the region under its own steam, while New Zealand and conservationists say offers of help to tow the ship away should be accepted to ease fears it could spill oil or other toxic chemicals near Antarctica's largest penguin rookery.

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[Tyler Durden]

1. Japan butchers DOLPHINS. You think they give two shits for PENGUINS?

[Nihil]

3. Dolphins, whales, penguins, ... they don't care about ANY lifeform ...

... that isn't Japanese ...

Fuck them.

[Ian David]

2. The Japanese have learned nothing from the Great Mothra Incident, have they?