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For oil. those rappelling protesters in portland came after the swarms of kayakers in seattle who had tried to block a different shell rig from docking in that city back in may. those kayakers came back to try to block that ship again in june when it was leaving seattle to go up to alaska. shell oil worked for seven years, they built $7 billion trying to figure out how to drill offshore for oil in what is basically uncharted territory off the northern coast of alaska up in the arctic. in august shell got the go-ahead from the obama administration to start that unprecedented arctic drilling. an...

All right. it was the last week of july in portland, oregon. high over the famous willamette river. environmental protesters were hanging out under the st. john's bridge. they had rappelled over the side of that bridge. they were hanging there like trapeze artists. and they were doing that so they could try to stop a giant icebreaker run by shell oil from leaving port and heading to the alaskan arctic to drill for oil. this wasn't the first time they'd put themselves between a shell vessel and its destination. back in april as shell moved a drilling rig across the pacific heading for its arcti...

All right. it was the last week of july in portland, oregon. high over the famous willamette river. environmental protesters were hanging out under the st. john's bridge. they had rappelled over the side of that bridge. they were hanging there like trapeze artists. and they were doing that so they could try to stop a giant icebreaker run by shell oil from leaving port and heading to the alaskan arctic to drill for oil. this wasn't the first time they'd put themselves between a shell vessel and its destination. back in april as shell moved a drilling rig across the pacific heading for its arcti...

This approval of the shell rig? >> i think at this point the president is pushing as hard as he can to point out what we need to do going forward. so if we disagree with him on part of his agenda, we agree with him on the overwhelming bulk of his agenda. the whole point of this trip, i think, is to say, where america is going on this is a new way, it's a clean way, it's for us to take the technology we have, take the policies we have, push them forward and lead the world. so the fact of the matter is we support the president and we think that he's doing a terrific job on this. 4th is bringing ...

Not support issuing any new permits to drill in the arctic. yesterday more than 40 of his colleagues in the house came out and publicly called for a federal investigation into this incident. and over the course of this ongoing situation up there, the news has just gotten worse and not better for shell. shell currently has two rigs in operation in the arctic. the one on the left is the one that just ran aground off the coast. the one on the right is now as of today reportedly the subject of a criminal investigation. cbs news reporting tonight that the u.s. coast guard has opened up a criminal i...