Posted on 05/18/2015 7:53:11 PM PDT by Lorianne
Hundreds of people in kayaks and small boats have staged a protest in the north-western US port city of Seattle against oil drilling in the Arctic by the Shell energy giant.
Paddle in Seattle was held by activists who said the firm's drilling would damage the environment.
It comes after the first of Shell's two massive oil rigs arrived at the port.
The firm wants to move them in the coming months to explore for oil off Alaska's northern coast.
Earlier this week, Shell won conditional approval from the US Department of Interior for oil exploration in the Arctic.
The Anglo-Dutch company still must obtain permits from the federal government and the state of Alaska to begin drilling.
It says Arctic resources could be vital for supplying future energy needs.
'The only safe place'
The flotilla of kayaks, canoes, sailboats and paddle boats gathered near the 400ft (122m) tall Polar Pioneer drilling rig.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
sounds like a bad case of ‘Red’ Tide.
I love how they are out there protesting oil in boats made of....wait for it...OIL!
Hippys.
And it took an oil based product to get them there, namely their kayaks.
So cut off fuel deliveries and power. Simple. Claim it is in keeping with fed mandates to reduce carbon emissions and let the greens make your arguments for having ‘big oil’ return in court to get their heated, air conditioned and transport-ated lives back.
Then deny them again on the basis of the spotted owl habitat. Rinse and repeat.
Make an example.
Pond scum.
From that photo, one can almost smell the patchouli.
Perhaps someday, the protest organizers will let non-whites into their group.
Seattle Times has some good photos of the protesters.
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/polar-pioneer-protests/
Old hippies and OWS types.
Sink ‘em all........
I heard on the radio a short cut from the idiot Socialist (we need a $15 minimum wage; Boeing needs to turn their manufacturing plant over and make busses instead of planes)Councilwoman - she was out there, too.
From what I understand in listening to the radio, there are a couple of different protest groups out there. Someone from one of the groups (don’t recall the name as I never heard of them before) told the radio station last week that they were going to have a puppet (as I understand it, very large ones) protest there over the weekend, but so far, no puppets.
Apparently, the kayak rental companies are having their best weeks ever.
I need gas in my car - think I’ll stop by a Shell gas station and fill up ;-)
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