08 Mar Carnival Pollutes More Than All of Europe’s Cars
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07 Mar Cruise Impact on Marseille, France
In 2018, The Guardian ran a story about Marseille cruise ship program and the impact on the port community. Excerpts: “We’ve noticed that the cancer cases here began emerging in the years after the cruise ship boom, as the ships got bigger and more arrived,” [Jean-Pierre...
10 Jan Carnival’s Continued Pollution While on Probation
U.S. District Judge Patricia Seitz called Carnival Corporation chairman Micky Arison to court halfway through the company's five-year probation. Carnival Corporation is the world’s largest cruise company, and is the parent company to Princess, Carnival, and Holland America, which all operate out of Seattle. The judge was...
08 Jan Port Commissioner: “We Don’t Want to be Hypocrites”
Local news station Q13 ran a story about the proposed cruise ship terminal in Pioneer Square and included perspectives of those who were both concerned as well as welcoming of the new cruise ship terminal. At the Port of Seattle meeting, most of the public comments...
07 Jan KUOW Story on Pioneer Square Cruise Terminal
Local NPR affiliate KUOW reported that the proposed Pioneer Square cruise ship terminal could help businesses, but harm the environment. Cruise ships using heavy bunker fuel are in fact the singularly most polluting entity in Seattle. One cruise ship idling in port puts out the equivalent...
23 Dec Seattle Air Quality and Cruise Ships
We all understand that pollution means bad air quality, adverse health effects, and contributes to the climate crisis. Here is a measure of exactly how bad cruise ships are for humans and the environment: A big city's air quality is typically 3,000 to 5,000 part per cubic...
08 Dec Overtourism in Seattle?
Veteran journalist and publisher David Brewster (Seattle Weekly, Crosscut.com) cautioned Seattle about the dangers of adding a new mega cruise ship terminal in Pioneer Square: "When cities invest in the visitor market (hotels, convention centers, festivals) they are ordinarily playing a final, desperate card in economic...
07 Nov Cruise Ships Emit Far More Carbon Than Planes
Research from the Climate Outreach Information Network found that cruises are far more polluting, per passenger mile, than flying. If someone sails from Southhampton in England to New York City and back on a mid-sized ship, that person would use almost 7.6 times as much carbon...
29 Oct Primer on Bunker Fuel and Scrubbers
It's critical to understand what "bunker fuel" and "scrubbers" are. This blog post describes what bunker fuel is, and why it's the prevalent fuel used by cruise ships. Cruise ship industry cheat the internationally agreed upon emission standards by using "scrubber" technology. Scrubber technology essentially takes the...
27 Oct Using Shore Power in Seattle
The Port of Seattle deserves praise for bringing shore power to all existing and planned cruise ship terminals. By using the city's electricity, the cruise lines can stop using heavy bunker fuel to power the ships while berthed. This cuts the toxic emissions, thereby cutting...
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