Judge Likens Shell Oil Rig Boarding to Piracy
Article by PHILIP A. JANQUART published by Courthouse News Service, Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Judge Likens Shell Oil Rig Boarding to Piracy
(CN) – A federal judge refused to dismiss Shell Offshore’s lawsuit accusing Greenpeace protestors of illegally boarding its Alaska-bound oil rig on the high seas.
The protestors, including lone U.S. citizen Aliya Field, used inflatable boats launched from the Greenpeace ship Esperanza to chase down and scale Shell’s transport vessel the Blue Marlin, and chaining themselves to the oil rig Polar Pioneer.
They boarded the ship on April 5 to protest Shell’s Arctic exploration drilling this summer in the Chukchi Sea about 75 miles northwest of Alaska.
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