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A ‘symbolic victory’ for Greenpeace

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Mark Matassa
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When protesters pull out that phrase it’s a pretty good bet that they were not victorious in the original, non-symbolic issue. So it was in Portland Thursday, when Shell’s Arctic ice breaker made it past protesters dangling from a Willamette River bridge and past kayakers trying to block the ship’s passage, according to a report in The Oregonian. Losing that battle must have stung, but it will save Greenpeace some money, since a judge declared Thursday that the organization would be fined $2,500 an hour until the protest stopped or the ship passed.