Good news for #RedHook! The polluting behemoth is leaving. This MSC ship should’ve never been allowed to dock in Bklyn when it was incompatible with the shore power system & there was no plan for traffic control #cancer #asthma PM2.5 #climate #health #DirtyDiesel www.cruisecritic.com/news/msc-cru...

The shore power jib (crane) is no longer at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal. What’s going on? Has the long promised “mobile” jib been put into service? Is every ship now idling 24/7, burning dirty diesel fuel, while docked at the terminal? NYCEDC?

Without a ban on the use of scrubbers and the discharge of scrubber wastewater, or a mandate to use cleaner distillate fuels, ecosystems, ocean resources and coastal communities will continue to be threatened and human health risks will increase. Via @pacenvironment.bsky.social

#banscrubbers

The MS Zuiderdam in Portland today dumping millions of gallons of toxic scrubber wash into Casco Bay.

We are asking the city to ban scrubber wash discharge when the cruise ships are in port. Join us!

portlandcruisecontrolmaine.org/scrubber-was...

#Banscrubbers #cruiseships
#Maine #CruiseMaine

“Given the significant risks and harms from scrubber discharge, regulations like the proposed revision to Rule 8 of the Portland Terminal Tariff to prohibit scrubber wash discharge while ships are at dock, are appropriate and justified."
Kay Brown @pacenvironment.bsky.social

#banscrubbers #Maine

Cruise ship traffic in shallow areas, like ports, can trigger large methane emissions by just moving through the water, regardless of fuel. Methane is 27 times as powerful as carbon dioxide as a ghg, but these emissions are often overlooked

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Democrats must decry the Alaska-Ass Kiss!

“We have work certificates from Selecmar that sells Cuban workers for luxury cruises and withholds 80% of the workers' wages … “
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Been thinking a lot about big ships lately, over at @outsideinradio.bsky.social! This was a gnarly story to report: lots of fuzzy numbers, conflicting narratives and long-held truths.

As always, going directly to the people interacting with these ships reaped the most interesting answers.

I agree. Cruise companies should pay for their own infrastructure. Regardless, it was interesting to see that “capital partners” saw shore power and green port technologies in general as an investment opportunity. So worth posting, IMHO.
#Retweets ≠ #Endorsements 🙂

Seacap Becomes World’s First Capital Partner for Shore Power "It is the first capital partner globally to focus specifically on sustainable ports – with an emphasis on shore power and zero-emission port development" www.maritimeprofessional.com/news/seacap-...

Here is Quantum of the Seas docked in Victoria tonight. We get toxic emissions from the cruise ships and all that comes with them. Buses sit and idle with no consequence to the bus company or cruise lines.

We’re the ones who pay with the effect on our health, city, environment and ecosystems.

How bout going back and kicking the tires of the morgue trucks that lined the Brooklyn waterfront?
Source: CNN share.google/nr7hmz78sUl0...

Why don’t you go back to the 2020 Brooklyn waterfront and kick the tires of the morgue trucks lined the piers??
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Air quality measurements taken last week when cruise ships – such as NCL’s Norwegian Star – visited #Cobh, in #Ireland’s #Cork Harbour, show air pollution levels up to more than 250 times higher than safe levels recommended by @who.int

cleanarctic.org/2025/05/22/c... @sianprior.bsky.social #ireland

The protests in Portland forced the captain of the MSC Meraviglai to switch to cleaner fuel - a fuel that the ship should have been using in the first place! These lawless cruise companies will do whatever they want, until they're called out and shamed. theqsjournal.substack.com/p/portland-r...

“The cruise ship industry doesn’t even need passengers to cause a major row in a port city.”

The indefatigable Lincoln Millstein covers the MSC Meraviglia debacle in Portland
Maine

#cruiseMaine #Cruiseships #banscrubbers #portland #Maine
#publichealth

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Unfortunately, in NYC, CLIA has sycophants in NYC Economic Development Corporation. They do the cruise industry’s bidding. So even “negotiated agreements” are flawed, full of loopholes, & do nothing for our communities. We’ve set plenty of expectations, applied pressure, but CLIA owns NYC politics.

Exactly 💯%

No. Lots of issues with them and what they tell us. Also, why the heck do communities have to PROVE that emissions from ships are harmful when it’s proven science, established by countless studies in the U.S. and abroad? It’s just another onerous obstacle to actually getting stuff done!!

Sorry - I meant “home-porting”, of course. As far as I know, NO cruise ship has ever had an opacity test while at berth in Brooklyn. We’ve had to rely on visual reporting, scientific modeling, and some rudimentary (community based) air monitoring to ascertain emissions levels. Pretty sad.

The same ship has been doing the same thing in Brooklyn ever since it started home posting here. This video is from earlier this month. As you say, the Coast Guard is supposed to enforce the emissions rules, but there’s no clear way to get them to respond to violations like these.

If the ship isn’t using Low Sulfur Diesel Fuel and isn’t using scrubbers, then it’s breaking the law.
The 2015 North American Emissions Control Area (ECA) regulation requires ships to burn low sulfur fuel (or use scrubbers) to meet emissions standards. Clearly this ship isn’t doing either.

The cruise industry and its supporters in government always put profit over people - and the planet. Shame on them all. 🤬