Seattle protesters plan kayak blockade to stop Shell rig departure
Seattle protesters plan kayak blockade to stop Shell rig departure
June 10, 2015 7:49AM ET Updated 5:30PM ET
by Renee Lewis
Seattle activists opposed to Arctic drilling have vowed to launch a kayak blockade to prevent the departure of Shell’s drilling rig, and said they have hundreds of protesters standing to hit the water as soon as the Polar Pioneer departs.
“Our effort is to create as large a flotilla as we can to make it impossible for them to get permission to leave,” Bill Moyer, executive director of the Backbone Campaign, an environmental justice organization, told Al Jazeera on Wednesday.
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