It's really, really hard not to be cynical about this, given that Greenpeace's ship Rainbow Warrior (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior</a>). Given the tiny size of the fine relative to EDF's cash flow, one could cynically guess that the two EDF "security staff" that got sacked for doing this were just losers in some weird, inside-EDF corporate power play.