Lucy Lawless has boarded a Shell Oil ship preparing to set sail to the Artic to drill for oil. Not just boarded either, but scaled a 53 meter high drilling tower with other activists and prepared to hang out atop the structure until such time as Shell decides oil isn’t worth ripping up every single part of the planet for.
Lucy said: “Deep-sea oil drilling is bad enough, but venturing into the Arctic, one of the most magical places on the planet, is going too far.I don’t want my kids to grow up in a world without these extraordinary places intact or where we ruin the habitat of polar bears for the last drops of oil.”
The headlines on this one have been nothing short of amazing:
Police board ship; talk to Lawless
Even better:
Lawless, Warrior Actress
This isn’t the first involvement Lawless has had with environmental causes in New Zealand and around the world. Here Lucy and Robin Malcom (another amazing New Zealand actress) get sexy with fossil fuel.
Brilliant! Way to go Lucy Lawless!
Direct action, boycotting companies/nations products and just speaking up – we can all do that, but this action was very brave.
Kudos to NZ Greenpeace
I quite agree – and, of this morning, they are all still there having slept on the tower, so that’s nice.
I love Lucy….now there’s just one more reason. *vbg*
She’s on the Twitter, and her tweets, especially about this are classic!
Wow, I just read some of her twits. She really is awesome.