WHEN SEATTLE PROTESTS A GIANT OIL CORPORATION, it does it the right way: with kayaks. Shell recently brought it’s giant oil drilling platform, the Polar Pioneer, into the port of Seattle, and environmentally-minded Seattlites were not pleased: Shell has a checkered history of drilling in the Arctic and, you know, is an oil company. Under the slogan #sHellNo, Seattle environmentalists rowed their kayaks out to the port in an act of what they’re referring to as “kayaktivism.” The pictures of the protest are awesome.
Photo: Greenpeace USA
Check Out These Awesome Photos of Seattle "Kayaktivists" Fighting Shell
Kayakers in Seattle are saying #ShellNo to Shell’s Arctic drilling rig. http://t.co/U3K993w2Xo pic.twitter.com/3nvpvzYrXc
— inhabitat (@inhabitat) May 18, 2015
Kayaks surround Shell’s rigs. This is the fight for the future. #shellno pic.twitter.com/lkShuBhowd
— Bill McKibben (@billmckibben) May 16, 2015
TODAY: Pacific climate warriors support #sHellNo activists taking direct action in Seattle: http://t.co/eTHoyFDite pic.twitter.com/oSpKQmbyEA
— RAN (@RAN) May 16, 2015
Como si todo esto fuera poco, alguien MÁS se sumó a la protesta en kayaks frente a @Shell #ShellNo pic.twitter.com/fpKBun4Omr
— Greenpeace Argentina (@GreenpeaceArg) May 18, 2015
Shell Gets Paddled in Seattle http://t.co/SQItDcAogd #ShellNo #PaddleInSeattle #Indigenous #IdleNoMore #SaveTheArctic pic.twitter.com/KOv6B6Lqu6
— Humans = #Quantum (@ShaktiLila) May 18, 2015
Solar-powered party barge bumping Sheryl Crow at #ShellNo protest in Seattle. pic.twitter.com/tLd69i20Yi
— Katie Herzog (@kittypurrzog) May 16, 2015
Seattle’s Mayor and City Council have also sided against Shell, and the sea lions are apparently protesting them as well. The protests, which have been mostly organized by the group sHellNo, have been nonviolent, and are geared at blocking Shell’s preparations for drilling in the Arctic.
SPOTTED: A sea lion confronts Shell’s Arctic oil rig.
> http://t.co/aYXYu0ewxX
#SaveTheArctic pic.twitter.com/kuYlEYKB0Q
— Greenpeace (@Greenpeace) May 14, 2015
Best of luck to the protesters in the Northwest. #YouShellNotPass. 
h/t: Grist