So their latest "demonstration" involves suspending themselves from the St. Johns Bridge - using only locally-sourced, organic, artisan-woven ropes, of course - with enough supplies and buddies up on top of the bridge to keep them going for days. The idea is to "make a difference" by preventing the newly-repaired Shell "Fennica" icebreaker from departing Portlandia for the Arctic.
As you might have guessed, these folks aren't local; it's all being orchestrated by "Greenpeace".
Greenpeace tells KOIN 6 News that 13 people have secured themselves in place suspended from the bridge with enough supplies to last for days. The other 13 people are acting as look out and safety teams for the climbers under the bridge.
“They are standing in the way of Shell being about to go up and drill in the Artic,” Mary Nichol, the event coordinator tells KOIN.
“If Shell is able to drill in the Artic it would be an absolute disaster.”
Yeah boy, they've got themselves an "event coordinator" and everything. They stayed pretty quiet about their sponsorship during their big "kayaktivist" shindig a few days back, but they pretty much had to come clean with today''s antics.
Police aren't really doing much apart from watching, although the greenies aren't really having things go completely as planned: police are allowing motorized traffic to cross the bridge, but not pedestrians. This means that the greenies who'd expected to hang out on the bridge, replenishing supplies and whatnot to the danglers are - whoa-oh! - not allowed on the bridge.
