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Protestors stick to their guns over tar sands |
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21 Feb 2012, 10:37 PM
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With just 2 days until the EU is slated to vote on labelling tar sands oil as 23% more polluting than conventional crude (effectively banning it from the continent), grassroots campaign groups are mobilising to put massive pressure on the UK to support the Fuel Quality Directive, February 23.
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With just 2 days until the EU is slated to vote on labelling tar sands oil as 23% more polluting than conventional crude (effectively banning it from the continent), grassroots campaign groups are mobilising to put massive pressure on the UK to support the Fuel Quality Directive, February 23.
Organisations including People & Planet, the UK Tar Sands Network, Lush, UK Youth Climate Coalition, Greenpeace and others, have been organising a series of awareness raising events, online actions, and publicity stunts around the UK, in last-minute attempts to sway UK opposition to the Fuel Quality Directive, heavily influenced by lobbying from the Canadian Government and the oil industry.
Last week, Lush and the UK Tar Sands Network staged an ‘Oil Orgy’ outside of the Lush store in Oxford, highlighting the overly-close relationship that has developed between the Canadian and UK governments surrounding the tar sands.
Today, People & Planet activists in Sheffield covered themselves in treacle outside Nick Clegg’s constituency office, to make clear that it is the responsibility of his government (and its LibDem Minister responsible for the vote, Norman Baker) to take a clear stand against the dirtiest form of transport fuel in commercial production today.
This evening, People & Planet, with Campbell Road Productions, launch a new documentary, Taking on Tarmageddon, a film which highlights the relationship between UK student activists opposing the tar sands, and young indigenous people in Canada who are fighting against the oil industry, to protect their health and traditional ways of life.
Liam Barrington-Bush from People & Planet said: “The world is mobilising against an industry that has no place in the green economy our planet needs right now. Obama has closed the door to the XL pipeline, First Nations groups are protesting the Enbridge pipeline, now is the EU’s chance to say no to dirty oil.”
Suzanne Dhaliwal from the UK Tar Sands Network said: “Europe has an opportunity with the Fuel Quality Directive to label the tar sands as a highly polluting fuel. We need to implement this legislation as soon as possible to create the sharp turn we need in the oil industry to stop the filthiest of the fuels and to find renewable alternatives.”
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