1000-Footer McCARTHY Anchors off Erie

Thousand-footer WALTER J. McCARTHY JR. of American Steamship Company, laden with 62,000 tons of coal from Superior bound for the Ontario Power Generation plant in Nanticoke, Ontario, is at anchor off of Erie tonight, awaiting the departure of ALGOMARINE from Nanticoke. Apparently today, five activists from Greenpeace boarded the ALGOMARINE in an attempt to keep her from unloading her cargo of coal from Superior. The vessel, thanks to the activists, now bears the slogan "No coal, no nuclear--clean energy." More information on this story can be found here.