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Welcome to fort green sheets. welcome to castle bravestorm. it's full of cool stuff, like... my trusty bow. and free of stuff i don't like. we only eat chex cereal. no artificial flavors, and it's gluten-free. mom, brian threw a ball in the house! welcome back. we've been watching this story all morning long. green peace protesters are taking on a shell icebreaker in the daring protest playing out in portland, oregon. take a look at this video. these are 13 activists who are dangling from the city's tallest bridge. they've kept the icebreaker from leaving port for now. earlier this morning i...

Portland, get it fixed up turned around and back out to the arctic as soon as humanly possible, as this window for when they can drill starts to close. unfortunately for them when that icebreaker arrived in portland, it was greeted by dozens and dozens and dozens of protesters protesters mostly on kayaks who surrounded that shell sip called the "fennica" as they docked in portland tots that ship retear. when that happened this weekend, shell probably realized this was going to be trouble. they needed it back in the arctic yesterday in order to start drilling but now here it is, thousands of mi...

"fennica" is it turning around or is it just the helicopters? who can we check in with. is rachel still there? [ cheers and applause ] >> is it turning around? >> ross can you hear me? >> i can, rachel. right now it's turning around it's sideways, cheers from people who have been hanging here cheers from people out here on the dock so unclear right now exactly what is happening, but for now -- yes, it's turning around completely at this point p so not sure what's going to happen next. i think a lot of people who have been trying to stop it thinking this is a small victory. >> so shell's icebre...

Icebreaker, shell announced that icebreaker would have to head all the way down to portland, oregon to get necessary repairs. that was a big deal. it turns out the trip from alaska, where this icebreaker sprung its leak the trip from that part of alaska to portland took 12 days just to go one way. that means getting the ship to and from portland was going to cost shell nearly a month in lost drilling time. the window in which he can drill is not that long because of the weather, right? so a lost month would really crimp their plans this year. the federal government as told shell they did not s...

This summer. this is an icebreaking ship. it breaks ice, but it also holds something called the capping stack, which would be needed as a component of the emergency spill response if shell's argument ig oil drilling resulted in a well blowout or some. shell has been poised to start drilling the arctic any day now. as it prepared to start the drilling process, this icebreaker was heading out to the drilling site where it was docked in alaska, this ship somehow sprung a three-foot leak. it had a three-foot-long hull ripped into the hull somehow, and forced it to return to shore. it happened earl...