While beached, "Pasha Bulker" was used as a billboard for slogans by Greenpeace on 27 June 2007. Lasers beamed messages such as "Coal causes climate change chaos" and "This is what climate change looks like" in red on the side of the ship. Greenpeace stated that the protest was motivated by unnamed "scientists tell us that storm surges of the type that we saw earlier this month are something that we can expect more of as a result of climate change."