Comments on: Cucumbers, Cruise Ships & Charnay http://www.yucatanliving.com/news/cucumbers-cruise-ships-charnay.htm Online magazine about living, working and traveling in Merida and the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:05:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: CasiYucateco http://www.yucatanliving.com/news/cucumbers-cruise-ships-charnay.htm/comment-page-1#comment-32484 CasiYucateco Wed, 23 Jan 2008 03:28:35 +0000 http://www.yucatanliving.com/news/cucumbers-cruise-ships-charnay.htm#comment-32484 Interesting that cruise ships and oceanic garbage dumping is mentioned in the same article. All cruise ships dump massive amounts of garbage at sea, especially outside nation waters. Many cruise lines have been penalized by the US for dumping sewage and garbage within US waters. If they are willing to risk it in areas carefully patrolled by the US Coast Guard, just think what they do in the Gulf and in Mexican waters, where patrol resources are much more limited. The advent of cruise ships in Progreso is nice economic news for some people. But it means ecological destruction. See: http://www.bluewaternetwork.org/campaign_ss_cruises.shtml and: http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/mar2003/2003-03-17s.asp and: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/348146_port21.html and: http://www.oceana.org/north-america/what-we-do/stop-cruise-ship-pollution/ Interesting that cruise ships and oceanic garbage dumping is mentioned in the same article. All cruise ships dump massive amounts of garbage at sea, especially outside nation waters. Many cruise lines have been penalized by the US for dumping sewage and garbage within US waters. If they are willing to risk it in areas carefully patrolled by the US Coast Guard, just think what they do in the Gulf and in Mexican waters, where patrol resources are much more limited.

The advent of cruise ships in Progreso is nice economic news for some people. But it means ecological destruction.

See: http://www.bluewaternetwork.org/campaign_ss_cruises.shtml
and: http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/mar2003/2003-03-17s.asp
and: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/348146_port21.html
and: http://www.oceana.org/north-america/what-we-do/stop-cruise-ship-pollution/

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