With over 30 Carnival cruise ship port calls this season, how can we trust what is being discharged in Casco Bay & if the self-reported violations are even honest?
#PortlandME #MEpolitics #Maine #cruiseships #Portland #Banscrubbers #CascoBay
@pinetreeactivism.org
Carnival corporation has been withholding data of pollution violations in Alaska.
What are they illegally dumping in Maine waters?
Carnival ships will make over 30 port calls to Portland in the 2026 season.
alaskapublic.org/news/alaska-...
#PortlandME #cruiseships #Banscrubbers #CruiseMaine
Alaska officials say they repeatedly asked Carnival for discharge records and, in some cases, direct samples. Carnival refused.
via @cruiselaw.bsky.social
#cruiseships #Alaska #Seattle #CLIA #Carnival
#PugetSoundStudy #banscrubbers
Nothing survives a blast through a scrubber. The cruise ships use live sea water teaming with microorganisms, zooplankton, copepods, even fish & lobster larvae, all of it killed in an acid rain bath.
#banscrubbers #cruiseships
How Cruise Ships (Legally) Dump Toxic Waste Into the Ocean
@junolocal.bsky.social of @seacc.bsky.social
talking scrubbers with Kay Brown of @pacenvironment.bsky.social
#cruiseships #banscrubbers
youtu.be/gVjKZV4sbCw
The toxic legacy of open-loop scrubbers on cruise ships & why this loop hole must be closed once & for all to protect our oceans, harbors, fisheries, & aquaculture in every port & along the entire coast of Maine.
#BanScrubbers #BanHFO #Portland #MEpolitics #Maine
#Eastport #Rockland #BarHarbor
We have no idea what is happening in Maine. Researching the self-reported violations now but will it tell the entire story? Probably not.
#banscrubbers #Portland #MEpolitics #Maine #cruiseships
Every port must require that cruise ships burn cleaner fuel to protect residents and the marine environment, including Portland.
#Portland #Maine #cruiseships
#banscrubbers #MEpolitics
PCC argues that Portland residents pay the short and long-term price in adverse effects to health and environment and the city must make immediate changes to protect our residents and harbor.
#Portland #Maine #cruiseships
#MEpolitics #banscrubbers #cruisemaine
@pinetreeactivism.org
We need regulation not a wait and see game ~
Don’t experiment with the health of Portland residents & Casco Bay!
There is a time for a laissez-faire
attitude and this is not it.
#banscrubbers #cruiseships #MEpolitics #Portland #Maine
Cruise lines rarely change their behavior, if it will cost them $. Portland needs the conviction to demand the ships use cleaner fuel ~ to protect the health of residents & to protect Casco Bay, the critical region of commercial fishing in Maine.
#MEpolitics #Portland #banscrubbers #cruiseships
How many gallons of toxic cruise ship scrubber wash needs to dumped into Casco Bay before someone (anybody!) realizes the potential connection to the alarming disappearance of eel grass?
* heavy metals
* PAHs
* increased acidity
#CascoBay #Portland #Maine
#banscrubbers #cruiseships #eelgrass
Is Portland putting the community first when they offer a “discount” to the billion dollar cruise industry to stop poisoning our air & water?
#Portland #MEpolitics #cruiseships #banscrubbers
@pinetreeactivism.org
“The cruise industry must take responsibility and stop poisoning our air and water by changing the fuel they use when they dock in Portland.” @jolocktov.bsky.social
www.pressherald.com?p=7606376&uu... @pressherald.com
#Portland #MEpolitics #cruiseships #Maine #banscrubbers
A detail photo of a cruise ship smokestack billowing black exhaust seen between greenery and a yellow apartment complex in Portland Maine
“The damaging toxic effects of open loop scrubbers are indisputable. They are not confined to the immediate vicinity of the vessel releasing discharge but can extend large distances depending on weather…”
Thomas J. Trott, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology, Emeritus
Suffolk University
#banscrubbers #Maine
Along with our local work in Portland, we’re building a coalition of environmentalists, fisheries, health professionals, marine scientists & legislators to ban heavy fuel oil in our state waters.
Because Maine can’t wait!
#MEpolitics #banscrubbers #cruiseships #banHFO #Portland #Maine #Eastport
Alaska, Virginia, Washington & now Maine—port communities throughout the US are questioning the toxic effects of heavy fuel oil on their heritage fisheries & coastal waters & are using legislation to end this damaging water pollution.
#banscrubbers #cruiseships #MEpolitics #Maine #Portland
Cruise lines market the pristine waters of Maine to sell their voyages, only to use the same waters to discharge their toxic scrubber wash.
Contaminate the commodity you sell doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, does it?
#Portland #MEpolitics #CascoBay #cruiseships #banscrubbers #Maine
Is Maine next to take on the permissible & polluting use of heavy fuel oil in the largest marine vessels?
#cruiseships #Maine #banscrubbers
Same analysis for Maine.
Marketing our pristine waters to cruise passengers only to have cruise ships discharge millions of gallons of toxic scrubber wash along our coast.
A sad irony, isn’t it?
#cruiseships #Portland #Maine #banscrubbers #Eastport
"A growing body of scientific evidence shows that the toxic poisons discharged from ships using Exhaust Gas Cleaning Systems (EGCS, known as scrubbers) damage the marine environment and increase human health risks. Scrubber wastewater is highly toxic, significantly hotter and much more acidic than the surrounding waters. It contains various pollutants, including heavy metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), nitrates and nitrites, sulfates and particulate matter. Even at extremely low concentrations — just 0.001% — scrubber pollutants can harm marine life and disrupt biological processes that harm ecosystems, ocean resources and coastal communities. 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, Arctic Policy Director, Pacific Environment
"Given the significant risks & harms from scrubber discharge, regulations are appropriate and justified."
Kay Brown, Arctic Policy Director, @pacenvironment.bsky.social
portlandcruisecontrolmaine.org/scrubber-was...
#banscrubbers #MEpolitics #Portland #cruiseships #Maine
One of the most significant developments from #PPR13 was a presentation from France. French officials demonstrated that enforcing scrubber discharge bans is neither technically prohibitive nor administratively burdensome.
@cleanarctic.bsky.social
@sianprior.bsky.social
#cruiseships
#banscrubbers
“…on many ships, systems known as scrubbers ensure the toxic sludge never materializes on board. That’s because it’s diluted with sea water and released back into the ocean.”
Some countries are cutting this source of marine pollution.
Will Alaska, Washington, & Maine do the same?
#banscrubbers
Incredible achievement!
Congratulations to @seattlecruisecntrl.bsky.social
When the community speaks, our ports must listen!
#localsfirst #banscrubbers
@seacc.bsky.social
commissioned an economic analysis for their cleaner fuel campaign & they determined it would cost roughly $3.50 per passenger per day to switch to cleaner fuel & protect Alaska’s precious marine waters, the food web and human life.
How is this even a debate?
#banscrubbers
“Scrubbers at present justify the continued use of heavy fuel oil (HFO), the dirtiest of all fuels. The shipping industry should get their act together by rapidly moving away from HFO and from fossil fuels in the longer term.”
@eelcoleemans.bsky.social
@cleanarctic.bsky.social
#PPR13 #banscrubbers
It has been discovered that exposure during a period of several days to even very low concentrations of scrubber wash from ships will have detrimental effects on copepod populations. So, why are scrubbers still allowed?
@pacenvironment.bsky.social
@cleanarctic.bsky.social
#PPR13 #banscrubbers
"Cruise ship scrubbers don't eliminate pollution—they just transfer it from the air to the ocean. Their toxic wastewater discharge contains heavy metals and carcinogens that threaten marine life and human health. Banning this discharge is a smart, overdue move that brings Portland in line with other leading ports and protects the people we love and the places we call home." Josh Archer, Stand Earth
"Cruise ship scrubbers don't eliminate pollution—they just transfer it from the air to the ocean.
Banning this discharge is a smart, overdue move that brings Portland in line with other leading ports & protects the people we love & the places we call home."
Josh Archer, @stand.earth
#banscrubbers
Allowing the cruise industry to lift their pause on scrubber wash in the Salish Sea would make a mockery of the Green Corridor for Cruise.
The Port of Seattle needs to make the “pause” permanent ~ not remove it!
@elizabeth-burton.bsky.social
@andyengelson.bsky.social
#cruiseships #banscrubbers
"Cruise ship scrubbers don't eliminate pollution—they just transfer it from the air to the ocean. Their toxic wastewater discharge contains heavy metals and carcinogens that threaten marine life and human health. Banning this discharge is a smart, overdue move that brings Portland in line with other leading ports and protects the people we love and the places we call home." Josh Archer, Senior Global Corporate Campaigner, Stand.earth
"Banning this discharge is a smart, overdue move that brings Portland in line with other leading ports and protects the people we love and the places we call home."
Josh Archer, @stand.earth
portlandcruisecontrolmaine.org/scrubber-was...
#banscrubbers #Maine #Portland #cruiseships #climatecrisis
