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Page 8A NATION/WORLD East Oregonian Now past Portland protesters, Shell prepares for Arctic drilling By DAN JOLING Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Hours after a repaired Shell icebreaker eased past protesters in Oregon to join an Arctic drilling operation, the oil giant XVHGRWKHUYHVVHOVLQLWVÀRWLOODWREHJLQ excavating off the coast of Alaska in KRSHV RI FRQ¿UPLQJ WKH SUHVHQFH RI billions of barrels of crude below the RFHDQÀRRU Royal Dutch Shell PLC now only needs the 380-foot Fennica, repaired at a Portland shipyard, to be on hand at the drill site to ask federal regulators IRU SHUPLVVLRQ WR GLJ LQWR RLOEHDULQJ rock already included on its Arctic RIIVKRUHOHDVHV 7KH GULOOLQJ ZRXOG FRPH RYHU WKH SURWHVWV RI HQYLURQPHQWDO JURXSV LQ Portland and elsewhere who say Shell KDVQRWSURYHGLWFDQFOHDQXSDPDMRU VSLOOLQDUHJLRQFRYHUHGE\LFHPXFK RIWKH\HDU Critics have decried Arctic offshore drilling since before the federal govern- PHQW DXFWLRQHG RII ELOOLRQV RI GROODUV LQOHDVHVWR6KHOODQGRWKHUFRPSDQLHV LQ %XW DIWHU IDLOHG ODZVXLWV DQG protests, opponents have few options WRVWRSGULOOLQJ Protesters seized one of their last chances this week after the Fennica was gashed by an underwater obstruc- tion in the Aleutian Islands and sent to 3RUWODQGIRUUHSDLUV 7KLUWHHQ PHPEHUV RI *UHHQSHDFH 86$ GDQJOHG IURP D EULGJH RYHU WKH :LOODPHWWH 5LYHU DQG ND\DNHUV converged on the Fennica to block WKH UHSDLUHG LFHEUHDNHU IURP KHDGLQJ WRZDUG WKH 3DFL¿F 2FHDQ DQG RQ WR $ODVND The Greenpeace protesters persisted even after a federal court judge in Anchorage ordered $2,500 hourly ¿QHV 7KH\ ZHUH ¿QDOO\ UHPRYHG E\ DXWKRULWLHV7ZRSHRSOHZHUHDUUHVWHG AP Photo/Don Ryan Boaters gather as the Royal Dutch Shell PLC icebreaker Fennica heads under a railroad bridge and up the Willamette River in Portland Thursday. 7KH 86 *HRORJLFDO 6XUYH\ HVWL- PDWHV86$UFWLFRIIVKRUHUHVHUYHVDW 26 billion barrels of recoverable oil and WULOOLRQFXELFIHHWRIQDWXUDOJDV 6KHOO RI¿FLDOV KDYH VDLG RIIVKRUH $ODVNDRIIHUVVRPHRIWKHPRVWSUROL¿F undeveloped hydrocarbon basins in the ZRUOG D SRWHQWLDO JDPHFKDQJHU WKDW FRXOG LQFUHDVH GRPHVWLF VXSSO\ E\ PRUHWKDQPLOOLRQQHZEDUUHOVRIRLO DGD\ (QYLURQPHQWDO JURXSV VHH RQO\ KDUPDSRWHQWLDOQHZVRXUFHRIIRVVLO fuel that will delay a transition to renewables; 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