He started off as 'Watty' and went to London to be renamed 'Olga'. The project was about promoting the location of a new oil and gas rig 'away' from whale breeding grounds in the Russian Far East off the coast of Sakhalin Island by
http://www.sakhalinenergy.com
Follow the story here:
30.12.2011 The start
04.02.2012 Whale to London
Ray's footage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOtLdG9OwjU&feature=player_embedded#!
The WWF short film:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yWm5s3kvdJU
I checked out the WWF and this is one point of view...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/6350795/World-has-less-than-five-years-to-stop-uncontrollable-climate-change-WWF.html
.... while this is another:
http://forum.davidicke.com/showthread.php?t=96092
For my part, I was happy to help Ray Brooks create something hopefully beautiful and worthwhile. I have no affiliation with the 'green' or 'climate change' movements. Indeed, I suspect the more whales allowed to breed off the Russian or any other coast, the more for the whaling ship industry to slaughter; so square that circle. As Gerald Celente put it recently: Beauty is the antidote of fear.
