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Cruise - PRINCESS CRUISES got a 40 Millionen Dollar penalty and our carbon footprint

Despite advertising a low carbon footprint PRINCESS CRUISES got a severe penalty for just violating enviroment protecting international laws.
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PRINCESS CRUISES newbuild MAJESTIC PRINCESS promotion picture - courtesy PRINCESS CRUISES
In a sunny state with strict enviroment protecting laws is residing a CARNIVAL CORPORATION subsidiary which developed a "magic pipeline" to get illegally rid of oil waste in first place, black and grey water too. This was done in grand style. PRINCESS CRUISES did an enviromental crime out of greed for profits.
As of the police investigations and a whistleblower from PRINCESS CRUISES, this was done since 2005!
When selling cruises at an average of US$ 1,350,-, but you need to earn US$ 1,780,- per person and week cost cutting is the primary thinking for creating a revenue. Even if a cruise company is getting revenues from extra spendings on board in extra charged restaurants, in the bars, for drinks, shore excursions the yield is cash you get out of the customer. So cost cutting is the primary - food&beverage (cheap as cheap can purchasing costs), crew salaries (subsidised by forced tipps), creative waste management (magic pipelines).
Didn´t we have seen what oil is doing? 
Deep Water Horizon? EXXON VALDEZ? AMOCCO CADIZ? ERIKA? 
The list of "accidents", "carlessness" and violations via and with oil is long. 
Further we have the plastic waste problem - plastic waste formed to areas big as islands floating in the Pacific Ocean.
Our, mankind, carbon footprint is to big for this blue starship ... or does the violators have a rescue boat Earth? We treat the world like we are on an unsinkable ship - but even TITANIC did not reach the port of destination.
And as if President Obama want to get a last signal for his carbon loving old ancient technique and gold loving successor, he signed the law to creat vast protected sea areas - since long neccessary to me, hopefully not to late.
`Come back new´ and `Escape Completely´ are two of PRINCESS CRUISES company advertisings ... it should perhaps be - swim in our wake to be easier canned money spending oil sardine and perhaps they thought only to escape completely themselves, but Murphy´s law made its way: US$ 40mio is not enough for my feeling.
Logo Princess Cruises
ESCAPE COMPLETELY - not this time for violating the enviroment, logo courtesy PRINCESS CRUISES
How can a customer trust a company his most worthy time of life, his holdays, to a company violating the enviroment for simple stupid profit greed?


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