REGIONAL
Government ship left alone while going south
GOLD BEACH (AP) - The
Greenpeace vessel Rainbow
Warrior left Oregon Monday af
ter leading local fishermen in
three days of demonstrations to
disrupt government-sponsored
exploration for offshore gold
and strategic metals
Left alone by environmental
ists and fishermen, the 143-foot
research ship Aloha went south
toward Brookings and contin
ued to map placer deposits of
mineral-rich black sands in a
joint project sponsored by the
state of Oregon and the U.S.
Department of Interior.
The 181-foot Rainbow War
rior, flagship of the environ
mental group Greenpeace, left
Gold Beach about 10 a.m. for
San Francisco, where it was to
show off ocean drift nets cap
tured during unrelated confron
tations in the Pacific, said
Greenpeace spokeswoman Cyn
thia Rust
Carol Alexander, ocean etiol
ogy campaigner for Green
peace. said she was staying be
hind in Oregon a couple of
days to continue working with
local opponents of offshore
mining.
''There have been many areas
of contention between Green
peace and the fishing commu
nity in the past." she said.
"However, ultimately we have
the same goal, which is the
health of the oceans and the
marine environment."
Environmentalists and fisher
men fear the exploration will
lead to offshore mining that
will devastate local fisheries.
"I think we rallied the fisher
men together and I think that
the fishermen will be success
ful in the future in getting
themselves organized and get
ting themselves together to stop
this type of thing," Diana
Desnoyers said from on board
the Rainbow Warrior
Desnoyers. 30. was one of 13
people arrested Sunday as fish
ermen on two dozen fishing
boats and Greenpeace activists
harassed the Aloha
Desnoyers boarded the Aloha
and climbed a large A-frame
structure on the stern, where
she chained herself. The Coast
Guard also seized three Green
peace motorized rafts and the
fishing boat Top Gun out of
Port Orford.
The seven Greenpeace activ
ists and six people from fishing
boats were released from the
Curry County Jail early Mon
day. There was no immediate
word on future court appear
ances.
The Aloha went on with its
work Monday escorted by the
213-foot Coast Guard Cutter
Acushnet out of Eureka, Calif.,
and at least two surf rescue
boats. Chief Petty Officer John
Keis said.
"It’s pretty peaceful out there
this morning," he said.
The ship embarked Friday for
a two-week cruise off the south
ern Oregon Coast to assess the
commercial value of black
sands that have washed out of
the Klamath Mountains over
millennia into the Pacific
Ocean. I*reliminary work has
identified gold, chromite, titan
ium and other metals in the
sands.
The demonstrations disrupt
ed some of tho Aloha's work,
hut didn't significantly delay
it. said Dennis Olmstead. a pe
troleum engineer for the Ore
gon Department of Geology and
Mineral Industries. The state
agency is part of the Placer
Minerals Technical Task Force,
which sponsored the two-week
research voyage.
Alexander said the demon
strations Friday through Sun
day prevented the Aloha from
following its published plans to
put out an array of listening
equipment to do seismic tests.
The seismic tests map the loca
tions of black sand deposits on
the ocean floor so that 20-foot
core samples (an be taken.
"They are three days behind
schedule." she said, referring
to a research schedule filed
with the U.S. Department of In
terior. "My understanding is
they were able to get some grab
samples."
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