Loosening of Discharge Rules

Found this article in the Anchorage Daily News:

http://www.adn.com/2013/02/04/2777212/alaska-house-passes-bill-loosening.html

Very interesting. Doesn't seem like a good idea to me at all.

It is not..mostly it is our republican majority sucking up to corporations...we'll see where this goes.

Hopefully, the cruise lines will take a principaled stand and refuse to take advantage of it. I don't know if they lobbied for this or it was a gift bestowed by the Legislature. It won't affect the rule prohibiting discharges in Glacier Bay as it's a national park.

Our legislature has been doing this for years - oil companies, cruise lines, whatever. It's all about big money.

Well, it's not a good idea but is partly in response to the passengers' complaints that the ship's laundry facilities for passenger use were closed most of the time in Alaska.

Hopefully, the cruise lines will take a principaled stand and refuse to take advantage of it. I don't know if they lobbied for this or it was a gift bestowed by the Legislature. It won't affect the rule prohibiting discharges in Glacier Bay as it's a national park.

It may be because of laundry issues as Penny Said, but I can guarantee that our legislature never gives gifts to anybody.

Right now they are talking about a $2 billion tax break for the oil companies. That "gift" has been well paid for through contributions....

To paraphrase Will Rogers, we have the best legislature that money can buy....;):eek::mad::(:rolleyes:

I find it pretty disturbing that the very thing the cruise ships want to highlight is the same thing they want to harm.

I find it pretty disturbing that the very thing the cruise ships want to highlight is the same thing they want to harm.

Seriously well done!

From friends who take cruises, I hear that they tour the ship's waste systems and get the full sell of what a great job the companies are doing. Too bad the heavy metals such as copper aren't visible in water. Thanks, I'll take a few soap suds over that.

It is rather odd how impassioned Republican representatives from places like Eagle River, neither on the ocean or in an area which gets cruiseship passengers, feel about this issue.