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Showdown at Sea: Greenpeace Puts Boats and Bodies Between Shell and the Arctic

By boat, by raft, or by swimming through frigid northern waters, the people will not back down against drilling in the Arctic.

That was the message Wednesday morning as about 30 environmental campaigners on Greenpeace vessels—including Musqueam First Nation activist Audrey Siegl, featured in a video on Tuesday preparing for the action—chased down oil giant Shell’s Arctic drilling rig, the Polar Pioneer, as it moved past Vancouver Island toward its final destination in Alaskan waters.

Under the banner of People vs. Oil, several protesters jumped from a raft into the choppy ocean waves to block the path of the Polar Pioneer. Shell plans to drill for oil in the Arctic’s Chukchi and Beaufort Seas, which are home to numerous Indigenous communities and marine species.

According to Vancouver’s CKNW news outlet, the protesters on the raft had a message for Shell:

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