Using the #sHellNo hashtag, a weekend-long series of protests in the Seattle area have culminated into a large kayak flotilla taking to Elliot Bay to surround Shell company’s new deep water drilling contraption.
Hundreds of wacked out hippies took to the water in kayaks to protest Obama’s signing off on Shell’s application to drill in the arctic. This is similar to a protest that took place in Vancouver, WA, along the Columbia river a couple of summers ago, to protest fossil fuels, where the hippies lined their kayaks across the river and dropped a sign from the I 5 bridge that read “Coal, Oil, Gas. None Shall Pass”.
Apparently there have been no arrests and no injuries.
Former Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn was among the so-called “kayaktavists”.
As well as current Seattle councilwoman and socialist party flag bearer Kshama Sawant
These are the same people who also protest land oil extraction, such as fracking, the tar sands, and the Keystone XL. Perhaps they believe the world can run on the hot air coming of their… well, you get the point.
