Emma Thompson Joins Greenpeace to Celebrate as Shell Scraps Drilling Plan

On September 29, the day after Shell announced it was scrapping its plans to drill for oil in the Arctic, actress Emma Thompson joined activists outside the company’s London headquarters to celebrate. Protests outside the headquarters had been ongoing for a number of weeks, married with protests against the planned drilling all over the world.

In a statement, Greenpeace said, “As the years – and protests – have rolled on, it appears the tide has turned. In the last few months even Hillary Clinton came out against Arctic drilling, publicly contradicting President Obama’s position. So it might have seemed like a David and Goliath battle to begin with – but in the battle of people vs Shell, we might just have won.” Credit: Greenpeace UK