Two Greenpeace activists briefly interrupted British Prime Minister Liz Truss' speech on Wednesday at the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham.
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Who voted for this?
“, Indicated the sign brandished by these activists, quickly escorted out of the room while Liz Truss was applauded by her supporters.
Greenpeace aimed to "
denounce the shredding of the (Conservative) party's promises in 2019
", explained the NGO on Twitter.
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The Prime Minister is flip-flopping on fracking, strong climate action and leading environmental protections.
Who voted for this?
“wrote Greenpeace.
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Faced with the energy crisis, Liz Truss, in power for just a month, promised to accelerate the exploitation of oil and gas in the North Sea.
His government has already lifted the moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, a polluting technique for extracting hydrocarbons from shale.
She also refused to tax the oil companies, despite the record profits made in recent months.
The United Kingdom is one of the pioneers in Europe in the fight for the climate, with a major law dating from 2008 and a rapid transformation of its energy model, coal representing only 3% of the energy consumed in 2020. , compared to 20% in 2013.
Very involved in the COP26 climate conference in 2021 in Scotland, former Prime Minister Boris Johnson had promised to make the United Kingdom the Saudi Arabia of wind power and presented ambitious climate objectives concerning, for example, the end of petrol and diesel vehicles.
Liz Truss, who succeeded him, has never been perceived as particularly committed to the climate, affirming her reluctance towards certain measures of support for renewable energies or protection of the environment.
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