Dozens of protesters blocked critical oil infrastructure in Essex and the Midlands on Tuesday, as police arrested 20 people following reports of disruption at three locations in Thurrock.
Essex Police said they had received reports just after 6am onwards relating to people causing disruption in St Clements Way, Chafford Hundred railway station, and an industrial site at Askew Farm Lane.
Stuart Austin, an inspector at the force, said: “We are working to resolve these situations as quickly and safely for all those involved.”I want to be clear: policing is not anti-protest but we must intervene where there is a risk to life or where laws are being broken.”
But are they doing it to complain about the price of fuel?, or to stop climate change?
It’s important because there are a certain set of people who praise this kind of thing when it suits them, but wail like banshees when it doesn’t.
Fucking morons,
You can’t just walk onto a comah site, the risk they posed to themselves and to the surrounding areas is outrageous.
They could have walked into a explosive/asphyxiation area and not known about till one of them collapses and dies or one of their non ex gadgets set off a explosion.
Hopefully the home office throws the full terrorist laws at them for the risk they posed to everyone in and around the sire.
Gas is now expensive so let’s rise the price of oil and it’s alternatives.
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This is extreme. Sadly I don’t think it will be the most extreme protest we’ll see in the coming years.
We’ve only just hit 1.1°C above the pre-industrial baseline and aspects of climate change are kicking our ass. If we stop it at 1.1°C things will still deteriorate because certain aspects of climate change develop over time (e.g. what’s happening to cereal crops). Thing is, we’re definitely going to reach at least 1.5°C within the next decade or so, even with the uptake in organisations reducing their emissions (a science-based near term target of 1.5°C is considered ambitious and is pretty common).
As extreme as the actions of these protesters may seem, I kind of get it (although even knowing what I know about climate change I still wouldn’t have joined them). From a utilitarianist perspective, it’s potentially justifiable.
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***From Telegraph reporters:***
Dozens of protesters blocked critical oil infrastructure in Essex and the Midlands on Tuesday, as police arrested 20 people following reports of disruption at three locations in Thurrock.
Essex Police said they had received reports just after 6am onwards relating to people causing disruption in St Clements Way, Chafford Hundred railway station, and an industrial site at Askew Farm Lane.
Stuart Austin, an inspector at the force, said: “We are working to resolve these situations as quickly and safely for all those involved.”I want to be clear: policing is not anti-protest but we must intervene where there is a risk to life or where laws are being broken.”
**Read more for free:** [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/23/watch-just-stop-oil-protesters-infiltrate-essex-fuel-depot/](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/23/watch-just-stop-oil-protesters-infiltrate-essex-fuel-depot/)
Domestic Terrorists.
But are they doing it to complain about the price of fuel?, or to stop climate change?
It’s important because there are a certain set of people who praise this kind of thing when it suits them, but wail like banshees when it doesn’t.
Fucking morons,
You can’t just walk onto a comah site, the risk they posed to themselves and to the surrounding areas is outrageous.
They could have walked into a explosive/asphyxiation area and not known about till one of them collapses and dies or one of their non ex gadgets set off a explosion.
Hopefully the home office throws the full terrorist laws at them for the risk they posed to everyone in and around the sire.
Gas is now expensive so let’s rise the price of oil and it’s alternatives.
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This is extreme. Sadly I don’t think it will be the most extreme protest we’ll see in the coming years.
We’ve only just hit 1.1°C above the pre-industrial baseline and aspects of climate change are kicking our ass. If we stop it at 1.1°C things will still deteriorate because certain aspects of climate change develop over time (e.g. what’s happening to cereal crops). Thing is, we’re definitely going to reach at least 1.5°C within the next decade or so, even with the uptake in organisations reducing their emissions (a science-based near term target of 1.5°C is considered ambitious and is pretty common).
As extreme as the actions of these protesters may seem, I kind of get it (although even knowing what I know about climate change I still wouldn’t have joined them). From a utilitarianist perspective, it’s potentially justifiable.
A scary but important read – https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/
Didn’t they blockade a vegetable oil site a while back?
Domestic terrorists
I get the impression some people on reddit want us to know just how much they know about how refineries work…
Taco tuesday
I mean it’s always been a silly name but at least now these groups are starting to go for the throat