Coordinated civil disobedience actions on the Old Continent.
Climate activists decided to block access to North Sea oil infrastructure in six different European countries this Saturday.
In detail, these blockages occurred in Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Scotland, reports the British media The Guardian.
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Dangerous warming
“The governments of these six countries are authorizing new fossil mining infrastructure, not only harming the North Sea ecosystem, but also committing the entire world to dangerous warming,” denounces the civil disobedience collective Extinction Rebellion in a press release published on its site.
EXTINCTION REBELLION NORWAY BLOCKS RAFNES REFINERY
Extinction Rebellion Norway (XR) is conducting a large-scale action aimed at Rafnes refinery in Bamble.
XR Norway is laying down flowers at Rafnes refinery to memorialize all the people who have died, are dying, and will die due… pic.twitter.com/pSHJHRT7Vo
— Extinction Rebellion Norway (@XR_Norge) March 16, 2024
“The North Sea countries present themselves as leading countries in the green transition, while allowing global companies like Equinor, Shell and Total Energies to open new oil and gas deposits,” the collective further deplores. .
Together with @SR_Netherlands we are blocking all main entrances to the Shell refinery near Rotterdam.
Shell still plans to increase production & expand their activities.
We should not just stop with new projects but also dismantle old fossil fuel infra.
#northseafossilfree pic.twitter.com/3YRbdGn3Fs
— Extinction Rebellion Nederland (@NLRebellion) March 16, 2024
The joint actions come as a report from Oil Change International, published this week, revealed that none of the North Sea countries affected by the fossil industry plan to stop drilling in time. to respect the objective of the Paris agreements on global warming limited to 1.5°C.
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