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BELLINGHAM, wash. — Two activists spent about six hours Friday suspended from the anchor chain of a Royal Dutch Shell support ship docked north of Seattle to protest the petroleum giant’s plans to drill for oil in the Arctic Ocean.
The protesters sitting in cloth slings attached themselves around 3:30 a.m. to the anchor chain of the American Trader at the Bellingham harbor.
The Coast Guard reported they helped Bellingham police remove the protesters around 9:30 a.m. Friday, and then police arrested them for trespassing.
The activists were on private property, Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class George Degener said.
Police spokesman Lt. Bob Vander Yacht described the police interaction as peaceful.
