Karma

Sympathetic or not about Greenpeace's protest at Svea a couple weeks ago, this is pretty amusing.

First, this excerpt from an article last week:

"Fundraisers say they lost 20,000 kroner to help impoverished women when Svalbard's governor was forced to cancel a day washing cars so he could deal with the Greenpeace protest at Svea...Anne Lise Klungseth Sandvik, chairwoman for the local CARE campaign, sent an e-mail to Greenpeace asking for the 20,000 kroner...Truls Gulowsen, chairman of Greenpeace Norway, told the newspaper he's sympathetic for the lost fundraising and will provide the number of the telethon to those involved in the protest, 'but to force someone to pay is to go too far.' He said the governor, if committed to the event, can reschedule it for another day."

And this, courtesy of Svalbardposten, is at the top left of the Icepeople page today:

"Greenpeace has been fined 20,000 kroner after customs agents in Tromsø found 1,250 cans of beer aboard the Arctic Sunrise a few days after the group staged a daylong blockade at the Svea coal mine. 'We had a routine inspection when the ship arrived in Tromsø and found there was 627 liters of beer too much on board in relation to what was declared,' said Atle Joakimsen, regional customs director for northern Norway. The matter was reported to police who issued the fine, which was paid on the spot. The Arctic Sunrise was about to depart for Amsterdam last Thursday when the customs inspection occurred. 'It was embarrassing and very annoying after a four-month-long expedition to Greenland and Svalbard,' said Truls Gulowsen, head of Greenpeace Norway."