Shell has filed a complaint in federal court in Alaska seeking an order to remove Greenpeace activists who climbed aboard an oil rig in the Pacific . The activists, from Greenpeace, were arrested on Saturday after they tried to scale the drilling platform and block access for emergency response personnel. The six activists are camping on the 38,000-tonne Polar Pioneer platform , which they boarded using inflatable boats from the Greenpeace vessel 'Esperanza ' ' We made it ! We 're on Shell 's platform . And we 're not alone . Everyone can help turn this into a platform for people power ! ' tweeted Aliyah Field .
Shell has filed a complaint in federal court in Alaska seeking an order to remove Greenpeace activists who climbed aboard an oil rig in the Pacific . The environmental group said in a statement its team would occupy the underside of the main deck of the Polar Pioneer . The six activists are camping on the 38,000-tonne Polar Pioneer platform , which they boarded using inflatable boats from the Greenpeace vessel 'Esperanza ' 'We made it ! We 're on Shell 's platform . And we 're not alone . Everyone can help turn this into a platform for people power ! ' tweeted Aliyah Field .