AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Greenpeace activists have gone Saturday Shells rig Polar Pioneer. That Greenpeace has published in the night from Saturday to Sunday. The activists ended their action due to bad weather at sea.
The six demonstrators climbed Monday aboard the platform to protest against drilling in the Arctic. They fear that the drilling goes wrong and an oil leak occurs in the area. The platform was towed from Asia to Alaska. Shell wants from the platform early June drilling in the Arctic. With videos, tweets and interviews wanted activists in recent days “to show the world what Shell is planning.”
The oil company announced Wednesday at a court in Alaska complained and wanted the six so fast possible were removed from the Polar Pioneer. The judge did not immediately decide about it.
The activists have for the judgment already left the platform because waves of 7 meters high are expected. They therefore went inflatables back to their ship, the Esperanza, which was all the time in the area and that they were dangerous. To the platform
One of the activists, the American Aliyah Field. ,, I climb now this platform, but that is merely the next step in the rescue of the Arctic “Zoe Buckley Lennox from Australia tweeted afterwards:. ,, Six days we were six of us now do millions of us. with. Shell has tried to silence, but our message made stronger. “
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