Smokey business

Today Ramapati told us during the crew meeting that a few papers in Alang have been reporting bad things about us. The story goes that Greenpeace wants the shipbreaking business to move out of Alang and to Europe. This is not true. Ramapati told us that it's not strange these papers write like this. The shipbreaking industry owns shares of these newspapers. So it's better if we just see them as newsletters of the shipbreaking industry instead of independent news sources.

If they paid attention they would have known why we're here and that we are not against shipbreaking as an industry. In fact we think recyling ships is a good thing. We are demanding that owners of the ships should make sure that their ships coming here are decontaminated from toxic materials before they arrive in India.

We're here to perform "toxic patrols", to see if ships sent for scrap still contain toxic materials. This makes you wonder why the shipbreakers are reacting to us like this. Why are they afraid of us if they've nothing to hide? All these hassle proves that we should be here. Even with a Supreme Court Order, smokey business is happening here, at the world's biggest shipbreaking yard.