Greenpeace activist Lucy Lawless (wearing a white shirt) talks to the media with fellow activists Ilai Amira, Zach Penman, Mike Buchanan, Viv Hadlow, Shayne Comino and Raoni Hammer after appearing at the New Plymouth District Court. While appearing in court the activists were sentenced to 120 hours of community service and ordered to pay $5210 in reparation for climbing the drilling tower of the Noble Discoverer on February 24 2012, while it was moored in Port Taranaki. All were arrested after a 77 hour occupation of the tower. An eighth person was arrested on the first day of the action. The activists had stopped the Shell-contracted drillship from departing the port of Taranaki for the remote Arctic, where its exploratory oil drilling programme threatened to devastate the Alaskan coastline.