UK Piracy?

[mark]

ok, so I know that some folks have fairly 'extreme' opinions about the commercial sector, but stumbled up these 2 news items

interesting they haven't made national news - upshot is, a fisherman opposed to Shell's offshore Gas project - they want to build a discharge pipe, which will probably do more harm to the environemnt than commercial fishing activities, gets boarded in the middle of the night by armed men and his vessel scuttled...



Shell denies plot to sink anti-Corrib man's boat - National News, Frontpage - Independent.ie

No cover for sunk vessel due to 'act of terrorism' - The Irish Times - Sat, Jun 13, 2009

interesting they haven't made national news...

I'm sure there will be some who think it great that a commercial vessel gets put down, but I hope not, As these commercial's were trying to protect the environment as well as there own livelihoods

Another case of governments taking it up the tradesmens' from major American Oil companies perhaps

 

[Lowrider]

Sounds like he has a bee in his bonnet.
Boarded at 2am and distress call sometime after 4am?
So a group of highly trained gunmen left a ship to maybe sink in over two hours.
Then left witness.
Sorry that don't stack up.
They were highly trained and armed and could have made the whole thing look like an accident i am sure.
He looking for compo