Sea Shepherd agrees $2.55m payment to Japanese whalers for injunction breach

Radical environmental group does not accept it is in contempt, but agrees payout after getting involved in confrontations with whalers in 2013A radical environmental group has agreed to pay $2.55m (?1.6m) to Japanese whalers for breaching a US court injunction to stay clear of their vessels in the Antarctic Ocean.The United States-based Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and former senior officials of the group last week agreed to pay the sum to resolve civil contempt charges against them in the US ninth circuit court of appeals. Continue reading...