Greenpeace wants Shell's lawsuit over protest dismissed
Source: Yahoo! News / AP
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Attorneys for Greenpeace Inc. say Royal Dutch Shell PLC has demonstrated no harm from environmental protesters who boarded a ship carrying a drill rig last month.
In a written motion, Greenpeace asked U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason to reject Shell's request for court-ordered, expanded safety zones around its Arctic drill fleet.
Shell's lawsuit is seeking 1,000-meter safety zones around most of its fleet and 1,500 meters around drill vessels. The oil company says the expanded zones would keep crews and protesters safe.
But expanded safety zones — larger than the Coast Guard's maximum 500 meters — would prevent Greenpeace from informing Americans about environmental problems, attorney Michael Moberly wrote.
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