Hats off. Amazed they have held it more than an hour. A very good surprise!
--M
Greenpeace activists enter Day 2 of oilsands protest
Edmonton Journal
September 16, 2009
EDMONTON — Greenpeace activists who have chained themselves to equipment at an oilsands mine in northern Alberta were hunkering down for another day of protest Wednesday.
Twenty protesters with the environmental group entered Shell Canada Ltd.'s Muskeg River oilsands mine north of Fort McMurray on Tuesday, chaining themselves to two giant dump trucks and a shovel, and unfurling a banner reading Tar Sands: Climate Crime.
Group spokeswoman Jessica Wilson said five of the protesters left the site Tuesday night, but the rest remained.
The protest has been timed to coincide with a meeting Wednesday in Washington between Prime Minister Stephen Harper and U.S. President Barack Obama. But Wilson said that doesn't necessarily mean it will end when the meeting does.
"It's still all very civilized, but we can't stay forever," she said. "No one can stay forever in the tarsands: Not Harper, not Obama and not us."
Shell says the protesters are on the site illegally.
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