Europe: As part of a concerted pan-European civil disobedience demonstration, climate activists in four countries—the UK, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden—are obstructing access to North Sea oil infrastructure. Protests against the ongoing extraction of North Sea fuel reserves held at ports, oil and gas terminals, and refineries in Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden.
A campaign organization called Extinction Rebellion asserts that these six nations are allowing new infrastructure for fossil fuel exploitation, endangering not only the North Sea ecology but also pushing global warming to hazardous heights.
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While activists in the Netherlands were blocking the main access roads to Shell’s Pernis refinery—which intends to develop and extend its production of oil and gas in the North Sea—Extinction Rebellion and Scientist Rebellion were blocking the road entry to the petroleum refinery in Rafnes, Norway. Access to the floating liquefied natural gas facility at Brunsbüttel barred by Ende Gelände climate protesters in Germany, while XR activists in Sweden were obstructing the Gothenburg oil harbour.
Local XR organizations in Scotland organized banner dropping at sites they deemed to be of “strategic importance” about proposals to increase oil and gas development. The UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, and Denmark found to have not matched their oil and gas policies with their climate commitments under the Paris Agreement, according to research by the advocacy organization Oil Change International.
