Oil rig on move to Seattle, protesters expected
Heather Graf, KING-TV, Seattle: May 14, 2015Oil rig on move to Seattle, protesters expected
SEATTLE — A massiveoffshore drilling rig left Port Angeles, Wash., early Thursday and is expected here later in the day.
The 400-foot long Polar Pioneer began moving out of Port Angeles at about 1:40 a.m. PT. The rig is expected to arrive here around 5 p.m. PT, traveling about 120 miles, the Coast Guard said.
The Polar Pioneer is one of the rigs that Netherlands-based Royal Dutch Shell petroleum plans to use as it moves ahead with plans to use leased space at the Port of Seattle to load drilling rigs and other vessels with supplies and personnel. It is preparing to explore for oil this summer in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska’s northwest coast.
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