Greenpeace to pay fine for damaging Philippine reef


  • World
  • Tuesday, 01 Nov 2005

MANILA (Reuters) - Greenpeace said on Tuesday it will pay nearly $7,000 in damages after the environmental group's flagship, the Rainbow Warrior II, hit a coral reef at a world heritage site in the southern Philippines. 

The accident on Monday was "very regrettable", Greenpeace said in a joint statement with the Tubbataha National Marine Park, but it laid some of the blame on maritime charts showing its ship was 1.5 miles from the reef. 

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