Out to Stop Shell’s Giant Oil Rig
Extracts from a Rolling Stone article by ANTONIA JUHASZ published 22 May 2015
Meet the Rappers and ‘Kayaktivists’ Out to Stop Shell’s Giant Oil Rig
…several hundred people trying to disrupt business as usual for the world’s largest oil company…
Their target, Royal Dutch Shell’s 400-foot-long, 300-foot-tall offshore oil rig, dubbed the Polar Pioneer, was just out of sight in Elliott Bay, behind the terminal building. In January, Seattleites learned Shell is planning to park the rig at their port for eight months of the year, when it isn’t drilling for oil in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea. Since then, a growing group of citizen-activists, elected officials and non-governmental organizations has been plotting ways to not only kick the rig out of the city, but also halt Shell’s Arctic drilling plans altogether.
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