Actress Lucy Lawless boards ship to protest Arctic oil drilling
Actress Lucy Lawless is shown protesting Arctic oil drilling Friday aboard the ship Noble
Discoverer at Port Taranaki, New Zealand.
Discoverer at Port Taranaki, New Zealand.
By Becky Bratu, msnbc.com
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 limit port access.
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.
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