Shane Rattenbury
Shane Rattenbury
Shane Stephen Rattenbury, Australian politician and former Speaker of the ACT Legislative Assembly, is a member of the multi-member unicameral Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly representing the electorate of Molonglo for the ACT Greens since 2008. He was the first Speaker in any Parliament in the world representing a Green political party...
against directed energy instead
It was disappointing to see so much energy being directed against the protesters instead of the whalers.
bringing campaign land whaling
We are bringing the campaign back to the land... there is no place for whaling in the 21st century.
goes hoping march season until
The season goes right through until March and we are hoping to get in the way as much as we can.
fleet hour whales
Every hour that the fleet is on the run, more whales will live.
again caught last late night saw seven whale
We caught up with the whalers again late last night and saw seven whale carcasses on the deck.
boats driven escaped individual number occasions whales
We've had a number of occasions where individual whales have escaped because we have driven our inflatable boats between the harpooner and the whale.
concerned happened occasion process pulled starting third
That process happened twice, and on the third occasion the Esperanza pulled out of the way because we were starting to get concerned about safety.
bad business good hunting mexican today
It's been a Mexican stand-off in continual bad weather, but today is fine. If your business is hunting whales, today is a good day for it.
certainly definitely increasing level perhaps shots starting week weeks
There is definitely an increasing level of tensions down here and the harpooners are certainly starting to take shots that perhaps a week or two weeks ago they would not have taken.
assessment boats energy exhausting food fuel hostile small
We're making an assessment of our food and fuel and our own energy levels, it's very exhausting being in small boats in such a hostile environment.
assume exactly hunting move next return
We don't know exactly what their next move will be, but we assume they will return to the hunting grounds.
ban defying government japanese sanctuary supposed whale whaling
This is supposed to be a whale sanctuary and the Japanese government is the only one in the world which is defying the ban on whaling here.
goes hunting love march middle season until
Their hunting season goes until the middle of March but we won't go on that long, we'd love to but we can't.
agency bad bankrupt business calling clear collapsing coming companies consumers defend fleet high hunt japan join market meet months morally piles seas stock telling whale whales whaling
The Fisheries Agency of Japan, the ICR and the whaling fleet are out of control. The hunt is bankrupt on all counts: scientifically, ecologically, morally and financially. With the market for whale meet in Japan collapsing and stock piles rising, it is clear that the whaling business is bad. Over the coming months we will be calling on consumers world-wide to join us in telling the companies that whaling is bad for business. Not everyone can join us on the high seas to defend the whales but they can join us on the high streets.