Purpose:
Fast Ferries and Cruise Ships - Clean Water Transit or More Air and Water Pollution?
Commercial vessels, fast ferries, and cruise ships represent one of the fastest-growing, least-regulated sources of air and water pollution, contributing to global climate change, marine pollution, and damaging health effects for people living near ports and coastlines. Bluewater Network's Clean Vessels projects are designed to reduce increasing threats to public health caused by airborne emissions, as well as serious threats to the marine environment from legal and illegal dumping of sewage and toxic wastes, from exotic species introductions, and via pollution caused by ships that burn the dirtiest fuels.

Our 2002 Clean Vessels Campaign - Fast Ferries and Cruise Terminal project focused on winning a final fast ferries plan for San Francisco that set a new national standard for fast ferry fleet expansion nationwide, and created ferries 10 times cleaner than the highly-polluting vessels originally proposed. We also won new standards and establishment of working oversight groups to monitor the development of San Francisco? new Cruise Ship Terminal. One cruise ship visiting San Francisco Bay produces more air pollution than the Hunters Point power plant, a notoriously dirty facility. Bluewater Network continues to advocate for clean vessel traffic in order to protect the Bay Area? unique environment and its public health.

Bluewater Network's mission is to champion innovative solutions and inspire individuals to protect the earth's finite and vulnerable ecosystems. Bluewater Network promotes critical policy changes in government and industry to reduce dependence on fossil fuels and eradicate other root causes of air and water pollution, global warming, and habitat destruction.

Primary Contact for the Project:
Teri Shore
Campaign Director
Phone: (415) 544-0790
E-mail: Tshore@bluewaternetwork.org

Secondary Contact for the Project:
Marsha Mather-Thrift
Associate Director, Bluewater Network
Phone: (415) 544-0790
E-mail: Mmather@bluewaternetwork.org