07/16/2012 | 06:55am US/Eastern
By Alexis Flynn
Environmental activists Monday occupied Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSB.LN) retail outlets across London and Edinburgh to protest the Anglo-Dutch oil giant’s planned drilling campaign in the Arctic waters offshore Alaska.
In a co-ordinated action, Greenpeace campaigners took over a series of gas stations throughout the English and Scottish capitals. Greenpeace said it planned to shut-down 112 stations by activating their safety switches, although both Shell and the Metropolitan Police were unable to immediately verify how many outlets had been affected.