Environmental campaign group Just Stop Oil (JSO) said it would be to stop direct action in the final protest at Parliament Square on April 26th.
The group said: “It’s just a halting initial demand for oil to end new oil and gas, and is now a government policy and one of the most successful civic resistance campaigns in recent history. We have more than 4.4 billion barrels of oil stored on the ground, and the court has determined that new oil and gas licensing is illegal.
“So it’s the end of Van Gogh’s soup, Stonehenge’s cornstarch, a slow march on the street. But it’s not the end of the year in trial, tagging and surveillance, fines, probation, or prison.”
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The JSO added: “As businesses and billionaires corrupt the political system around the world, we need a different approach. We create new strategies, face this reality and take responsibility for this at this point.
The statement continued. “This is not the end of citizen resistance. The government is withdrawing from doing what is necessary to protect us from the consequences of unchecked fossil fuel burning.
“The science is clear when we’re heading towards a global heating of 2°C by the 2030s. Billions of people need to move or die, and the global economy will collapse. This is inevitable. We are betrayed by a morally bankrupt political class.”
Earlier this month, six protesters, including group co-founder Roger Haram, won cuts in the Court of Appeals on prison terms for their role in the 2022 Just Oil protest.
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Brendan Montague is the editor of Ecologist. This article is based on the content provided by PA and the Just Stop Oil Press release.
