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Actress Lucy Lawless and six other Greenpeace activists boarded an Arctic-bound Shell oil-drilling ship in Port Taranaki, New Zealand,on Friday morning, causing authorities to close the port. The group scaled a 53-meter derrick on the Liberian-flagged Noble Discoverer around 7 a.m. local time. Lawless told msnbc.com that her heart was pounding and she was "a little shell-shocked" as they boarded, but that she now felt safe. "We don’t need to trash the Arctic to get three more years` worth of oil," she said in a telephone interview from the ship. Even as police warned them that they were breaking the law, protesters remained aboard. Greenpeace and Lawless tweeted the occupation. “I’m on one of the oldest drill rigs on the planet and it’s heading to the Arctic. Tell Shell to stop,” Lawless tweeted. James Turner, a spokesperson for Greenpeace, told msnbc.com the occupation was the organization`s last resort to stop Shell from drilling in the Arctic. |