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Shoot: Activists Board Shell Drillship in New Zealand (GP0STOL0)
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Activists Board Shell Drillship in NZ
Actor Lucy Lawless, centre, and five Greenpeace activists, from left, Mike Buchanan, Raoni Hammer, Vivienne Hadlow, Shai Naides and Shayne Comino, outside New Plymouth's central police station, after their release on bail on charges relating to their 77-hour occupation of the Noble Discoverer. The Shell contracted drillship is heading to the Arctic to start drilling for oil. Shell is positioning itself to be at the head of an oil-rush into the Arctic, in expectation that climate change will continue to drive up the average Arctic summer ice melt, and so make drilling in the region easier. Oil spills are virtually impossible to clean up in Arctic conditions.
02/27/2012
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Actress Lucy Lawless joins Greenpeace New Zealand activists in stopping a Shell-contracted drillship, the Noble Discoverer, from departing the port of Taranaki for the remote Arctic, where its exploratory oil drilling programme threatens to devastate the Alaskan coastline.
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