
Shell, the company that owns the ship, has condemned the protest, saying it put people's lives at risk Actress Lucy Lawless has pleaded guilty to trespass after she and other activists protested aboard an oil-drilling ship docked in New Zealand.
She is due to be sentenced in September and faces a maximum three years in jail. Prosecutors reduced a more serious charge of burglary.
In February, she and five other Greenpeace environmental activists spent four days perched atop a 174-foot (53-meter) drilling tower on the Noble Discoverer in Port Taranaki in a protest against Arctic oil exploration. Eight activists pleaded guilty Thursday at the Auckland District Court.
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