[environmental disaster] greenpeace finally moving

Black Quill, bless him, is running a piece on the oil disaster and now, finally, after a week and a half, Greenpeace is becoming involved:

As Greenpeace is getting involved, I think James’ worries will be answered soon, however, there are a few confusing things …

Quinlan’s piece over there is good but I don’t share his enthusiasm for Greenpeace. Here is their ‘urgent assistance’:

Environmental watchdog Greenpeace said on Sunday that it was “shocked” by the extent of damage caused by the Philippines’ worst ever oil spill and called on the government to treat the raising of the sunken tanker as a matter of urgency.

“It’s really bad out there,” Athena Ballesteros, climate and energy campaigner for Greenpeace International, said. “The extent of damage to such a wonderful part of the Philippines shocked us all.”

“The government must treat, as a matter of urgency, the raising of the tanker before more damage is done,” she said.

Greenpeace says it will take several months to draw up its report on the full environmental impact of the spill.

Now where is the ‘urgent action’? Go to their site. Where are the banner headlines about it? I hope Black Quill is right [and the anomalies he draws attention to are indeed curious] but again:

Where is the effective action?