“Just wait until the New York Times stumbles upon how centuries of increasingly larger oceangoing vessels pulling into the Hudson River has transformed Nieuw Amsterdam beyond all recognition.”
“Just wait until the New York Times stumbles upon how centuries of increasingly larger oceangoing vessels pulling into the Hudson River has transformed Nieuw Amsterdam beyond all recognition.”
Disney Land? You screwed Palin,and guess what you get.Fater,please.
You wouldn’t want to LIVE in Disneyland.
Three clicks brings you to the actual story, & the “Lucky Devils” Here, the preceding sentence is included.
// In Alaska on Tuesday, state lawmakers rolled back tough wastewater standards mandated by voters in 2006. The bill, backed by Gov. Sean Parnell, will allow the 36 cruise ships that travel Alaska’s waters each year to discharge wastewater with less treatment than it currently receives.
Michelle Ridgway, a marine ecologist who serves on the state science panel for cruise ships, watched as Alaska cruise ship traffic grew to about a million people a year and changed her hometown, Ketchikan. “The pulp mill closed and the place turned into Disneyland,” //
& in Charleston
// “I can hear the announcements from my house,” she said. “And that black smoke. It just tumbles out of that smokestack. You should see the dust in my car.”
[…]
A cautionary tale might be found in Mobile, Ala., where Carnival Cruise Lines hauled the lifeless Triumph last week. Mobile would gladly take any cruise ship traffic at all. The port and the city romanced Carnival Cruise Lines for years. In 2004, after the city borrowed $20 million to build a terminal, Carnival finally agreed to the relationship and based a ship there.
In 2007, Carnival named Mobile its port of the year. Things were going so well that in 2009, Mobile spent $2.6 million on a new gangway. Two years later, Carnival left. //
You wouldn’t want that reeking wedding cake of shit pulling up to your driveway, would you?
It won’t really faze New York though. Here’s a better article than Driscoll’s wiki page on historical & current dredging in New York
Re: the pulp mill closing. Yes, it is good that the hooligans broke all of those windows. Look at all of the resulting economic activity. Of course, it helps that none of them were my windows. (/sarc)
Most alaskan cruises stop here in Victoria on their way and there’s environuts in James Bay who spent untold dollars studying the pollution the ships caused. They completely failed at having them shut down. The ships just turn off their engines while in port and use land power.