By Associated Press, Updated: Friday, January 25, 10:23 AM
About 25 activists from around Europe chained gas pumps together Friday at the station near where the World Economic Forum was being held and hung a banner on the roof reading “Arctic Oil – Too Risky.”
Greenpeace helped stage the protest, raising concerns about dangers to the environment from Shell’s drilling in Alaska and urging forum organizers to reconsider Shell’s participation. A Shell drill barge ran aground on a remote Alaska island on New Year’s Eve.
Shell officials, among the 2,500 corporate and political leaders in Davos this week, did not immediately respond to phone calls about the protest.
Interesting TWEET by Nicholas Kristof, New York Times columnist…
Whispers at #Davos: Why is Royal Dutch #Shell greedily undermining EU transparency rules that fight global corruption?