FOR RELEASE: November 8, 2021 Global Cruise Activist Network Warns: Cruise Ships are Super-Emitters of Greenhouse Gases; Action towards Paris Agreement Goals Proposed The Global Cruise Activist Network (GCAN) is calling on UN delegates to take immediate steps to ensure that cruise ships in service anywhere in the world...
https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2021/09/29/61548422/are-cruise-ships-killing-seattle-it-depends-how-who-and-when-you-ask Alex Adams, Interim Director for Maritime Sustainability, responding to a question by Stranger reporter, Matt Baume. (Link to article above). ...
Fair Sailing is an initiative by the James Bay Neighborhood Association (JBNA) to advocate for responsible cruise tourism practices that prioritize the interests of residents, local businesses and the environment of Victoria, Canada’s highest volume port-of-call. James Bay residents want quality of life, clean...
Over two dozen organizations and grassroots groups have sent a letter to Port of Seattle Commissioners and staff outlining the reasons to end our toxic relationship with the cruise ship industry and transition to a cruise-free Salish Sea. “As one of the fastest-growing sources of...
https://youtu.be/vcHcOl74Sk0 ...
“We all want, after the COVID pandemic, to go back to normal,” Dooley said. “I, as a doctor, want this too, but there was no normal to begin with. It wasn’t a normal economy that allowed pollution from cruise ships as another part of business,...
https://www.theurbanist.org/2021/07/22/advocates-condemn-the-return-of-cruise-ships-to-seattle/ ...
Thanks Brendan Kiley for exposing the toxic underbelly of the Seattle Cruise industry for Times readers. This is the most in depth coverage by mainstream news media of the relationship between the Port of Seattle and the cruise industry, and the impact on the environment....
June 29, 2021, one day after all time heat records were smashed across the Pacific Northwest, with Seattle reaching 108 degrees, a full 5 degrees above the previous record, Port of Seattle Maritime Director, Stephanie Jones- Stebbins, in referencing a question from the audience said...
