http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505245_162-57398631/activists-protest-finnish-arctic-drilling/
March 16, 2012 6:35 AM

HELSINKI – Greenpeace activists have boarded two Finnish icebreakers in Helsinki to protest oil and gas exploration in the Arctic Ocean.

Some 17 demonstrators boarded the icebreakers while others clambered onto cranes with banners demanding that Shell Oil Co. suspend plans to drill in the fragile northern waters.

Greenpeace activist Sini Saarela, who boarded the Fennica icebreaker on Friday morning, told the AP that the crew had been friendly to the protesters and they planned to end their action in the afternoon.

In November, Arctia Offshore Ltd. agreed to provide two Finnish icebreakers, the Fennica and Nordica, to support oil and gas production operations on the northern Alaskan coast in 2012 to 2014.

Special thanks to Richard Charter