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By Stuart Tomlinson for Oregon Live, Activists Protesting Oil Drilling Demonstrators took to the river in kayaks and hung from ropes off the St. Johns bridge to protest shell drilling for oil in the Arctic region. Saying they have enough supplies to last for days, a group of 13 Greenpeace activists rappelled off the St. Johns Bridge over the Willamette River early Wednesday in an effort to block a Shell Oil Arctic icebreaker from leaving Portland. According to Annie Leonard, executive director for Greenpeace USA, the group is trying to prevent passage of Shell's MSV Fennica, which has been in a dry dock on Swan Island where a tear in the hull was being repaired. "Every second we stop Shell counts," Leonard said. "The brave climbers here in Portland are now what stand between Shell and Arctic oil. This is President Obama's last chance to wake up and realize the disaster that could happen on his watch."