sHell No

The Necessity Of The Necessity Defense

March 14, 2016 Amanda Schemkes, www.cldc.org Strategize! Climate Justice, Environment, sHell No

By Amanda Schemkes for Civil Liberties Defense Center - Last May, I watched the news reports about the girl who attached herself to the anchor chain of Shell’s Arctic Challenger as it sat in the Bellingham Bay—preparing to head to the Arctic to be part of Shell’s plan to drill for oil there, and to surely cause horrific destruction to the fragile ecosystem of the Arctic and magnify the impacts of climate change, including endangering indigenous people in the area.

Oil Industry Warns Shell Not To Drill Arctic

August 23, 2015 Lori Chandler, www.bigthink.com Educate! Arctic drilling, Climate Change, Oil and Gas, sHell No

By Lori Chandler in Big Think. Shell has received the final permits to drill off the coast of Alaska,courtesy of the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE). Many in the oil industry are timid, citing the many high risks involved from both a business and environmental perspective. One expert even predicts that oil demand is set for a long-term decline. If that's true, drilling in the Arctic would be an epic miscalculation — and a poor business decision. Former BP executive John Browne has publicly warned Shell of the potentially disastrous consequences of their decision, saying, “I think you’ve got to be careful what you do, and cost includes your long-term reputation.” I

A Day Of Tears: Report From The “sHell No!” Action

August 1, 2015 Kollibri terre Sonnenblume, www.macskamoksha.com Resist! Arctic drilling, Law, Oil & Gas, sHell No

By Kollibri terre Sonnenblume in MacsKamoksha - As has been well-documented, Royal Dutch Shell has plans to drill for oil in the Arctic, despite their knowledge that such extraction will exacerbate Climate Change. President Obama has given these plans his blessing, as could be expected of a politician beholden to the extraction industries. In order to commit such an ecocidal act, Shell has to transport many different resources to the area by ship, and activists have attempted to slow the process by blocking, if only temporarily, a couple of these key transports. In Seattle, kayakers delayed the departure of a Shell oil rig in June. In Portland, the Fennica, a Shell ship carrying a key piece that is required on site before drilling can legally begin, docked for repairs about five days ago, giving local activists scant time to put together a response.

Protesters Removed From Portland Bridge

July 31, 2015 Stuart Tomlinson, www.oregonlive.com Resist! Arctic drilling, Environment, Oil & Gas, sHell No

By Stuart Tomlinson in Oregon Live - Just before 6 p.m. Thursday night, Shell Oil's controversial icebreaker MSV Fennica weaved through nine remaining protesters hanging from the St. Johns Bridge and made its way toward the Pacific Ocean. After winning an early morning game of chicken with the ship, Greenpeace protesters suspended from the bridge and in kayaks and canoes on the river were left disappointed. Thirteen of them had spent the better part of 40 hours in climbers slings and on portable platforms. On Thursday afternoon, after more than six hours of relative quiet, boats manned by Coast Guard officers and Portland-area police officers began circling protesters in kayaks and canoes on the Willamette River below the St. Johns Bridge. Two-hundred feet above the water's surface on the North Portland bridge, Portland police blocked access to all vehicle, bicycle and pedestrian traffic.

Breaking: Protesters Dangle From Bridge To Block Shell

July 29, 2015 Stuart Tomlinson, www.oregonlive.com Resist! Arctic drilling, Kyactivists, Oil, Oregon, sHell No

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."

Kayactivists Protest Shell Ship In Portland

July 26, 2015 Art Edwards, www.kgw.com Resist! Arctic drilling, Climate Change, Oil and Gas, sHell No

By Art Edwards for KGW. PORTLAND, Ore. -- The fight against drilling for oil in the Arctic has come to Portland. Climate change activists kayaked to Swan Island Friday night and then again on Saturday afternoon, to protest a drilling support ship that arrived in Portland for repairs. Some also lined up on shore, waving signs with slogans like, "Shell No, Save the Arctic." Around 200 took to the water on Saturday and circled the ship in kayaks. They creatively referred to themselves as "kayaktivists." The Coast Guard had enacted a so-called "safety zone" around the ship in an effort to keep space between the demonstrators and the massive boat, which is more than 300 feet long.

Obama’s Approval of Arctic Oil Drilling Is A Bitter Betrayal

July 24, 2015 Miyoko Sakashita, www.medium.com Educate! Arctic drilling, Climate Change, Environment, Obama, Oil & Gas, San Francisco, sHell No

By Miyoko Sakashita in Medium - The Obama administration had approved Shell’s permits to drill for oil in the Arctic this summer. It came like a punch in the gut. How could he? Not only will this put Arctic wildlife directly in harm’s way of oil spill but it will push us deeper in the very climate crisis that President Obama has vowed time and again to finally address. More than 1 million people had urged the president to keep oil drilling out of the Arctic. Just last weekend, thousands of people around the world took to the streets and their local waterways to say “Shell No” to drilling in the far north. Obama didn’t just defy environmentalists around the world who have been calling for the Arctic to be kept off-limits to offshore drilling, he betrayed his own stated values and cast a dark shadow across the United States’ role as a world leader in transitioning the planet to the clean energy future it desperately needs.

Kayactivists Prepare For Shell Icebreaker To Arrive In Portland

July 20, 2015 Amelia Templeton, www.opb.org Resist! Environment, Oil & Gas, sHell No

By Amelia Templeton in OPB - Climate change activists in Portland are planning to take to the water in kayaks to engage in civil disobedience when an ice-breaking vessel working for the the Royal Dutch Shell oil company arrives at a local dry dock for repairs. The ship, the MSV Fennica, is part of the fleet Shell plans to use to explore for oil and gas this summer in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea. It gashed its hull in shallow waters off the coast of Northwest Alaska on July 3, and will be repaired at the Vigor Industrial shipyard in Portland. “The Fennica is seen really as the last line of stopping arctic drilling,” said Mia Reback, a community organizer with 350 PDX and the Climate Action Coalition. This is the last piece of the puzzle that Shell needs to legally start their test drilling.”

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