West Seattle scene: Busy morning on Puget Sound

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Lura on Beach Drive shared that photo from a busy moment in central Puget Sound around 10:20 this morning – while a new wildlife platform bobbed in the foreground, the background included a state ferry, an aircraft carrier – identified by Beach Drive Blog as the USS John C. Stennis – and the Tor Viking II, yet another of the ships that have converged on this area as part of the Shell offshore drilling flotilla that’s heading north sometime soon with the two drilling rigs that have been getting work done at Vigor Shipyard on Harbor Island. According to a document published in the Federal Register last Friday, Tor Viking (in Everett right now) is one of the 17 vessels for which a 500-yard safety zone has been ordered – including the drill rigs/ships Noble Discoverer and Kulluk – once they head north. (The Greenpeace Esperanza, which had been here for a while to monitor the potential departure, left this area some days ago.)

Carlo Voli June 26, 2012 (9:10 am)

Meditation for the Arctic: Please join us Wednesday June 27th at 7PM down at Pier 62/63 at the Seattle Waterfront for an outdoors public group meditation to collectively send positive and healing energy to help protect the Arctic region from oil drilling from the likes of Shell, and to illuminate our political leaders to declare the Arctic region an International Sanctuary and off-limits from resource extraction.

We will begin gathering at 7PM on Pier 62/63 (just north of the Aquarium), with a direct view of Shell’s two Arctic oil rigs which could be heading to the Arctic any day now. We’ll begin the guided meditation at 7:30PM and end at 8:30PM.

This is the Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/events/213054638817182

And link to the flyer: http://www.slideshare.net/carlovoli/meditation-for-the-arctic-flyer-13459673

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