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Category: Climate Crisis

  • Mayor of London Sadiq Khan condems Just Stop Oil, presents a climate change speech in Buenos Aires and claims credit for dispatching Liz Truss

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    Mayor of London Sidiq Khan condems Just Stop Oil

    Just Stop Oil didn’t delay us getting to M20 crash, says ambulance service

    Right-wing papers were wrong to claim climate activists on the Dartford Crossing delayed paramedics responding to a fatal crash, the ambulance service has said.

    The Sun and the Daily Mail accused two Just Stop Oil protesters who shut down the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge for two days from Monday 17 October of preventing ambulances from quickly responding to an incident on the M20 in which two women died.

    Both papers reported that disruption caused by the protest meant ambulances were delayed in arriving at the scene.

    But that claim has now been rubbished by the South East Coast Ambulance Service.

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    Sadiq Khan insists world leaders ‘meet words with deeds’ at climate change speech in Buenos Aires… after he and his team racked up 361,146 air miles lecturing the world on going GREEN

    Mayor of London Sadiq Khan – who is under-fire for he and his team’s estimated 360,000 airmiles – has told eco-conference delegates to ‘redouble their efforts’.

    Mayor Khan, 52, talking at the C40 World Mayors Summit in Buenos Aires told the audience more needed to be done.

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    He went on to confuse delegates bizarrely claiming credit for the ousting of Liz Truss as PM.

    He then paused for applause but was forced to shrug as only a handful of people clapped.

    Mr Khan added: ‘I’ve heard the news that my political opponent, the Conservative Prime Minister of the UK, has resigned.

    ‘Had I know that organising this summit could lead to the resignation of the UK prime minister, I’d have organised this sooner.’

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    I can assure you that Sadiq Khan was NOT responsible for dispatching short-lived UK prime minister Liz Truss since I know who was responsible. I most definately do not make such a bizarre claim.

  • My day with Just Stop Oil

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    I travelled to London on Monday to protest with Just Stop Oil (JSO). It was supposed to be the last day of their month of October actions and so it was my last opportunity to participate and show solidarity with them. I didn’t know at the time that JSO activists had targeted MI5, Bank of England and News Corp that day. They then had a 32nd day of action on the first of November that targeted Downing Street. I had wanted to join them from the start of October but simply wasn’t able to for weeks because of commitments involving an elderly person needing support.

    I arrived at about 11.30, half an hour later than JSO’s meeting time. I was very pleased to find them near the Department of Defence opposite Downing Street. I was worried that I might not find them and would be wasting hours wandering around London until I could catch my booked coach back.

    There were about 35 of us from all over the UK. Ages were from late teens and I would say about 70% like me fifty or over, some able to be there because they were retired and still fit. There were about three wearing Christian dog-collars. I recognised one from an image of him used on this blog before.

    Image of a Just Stop Oil participant getting arrested at Kingsbury oil terminal.
    A Just Stop Oil participant getting arrested at Kingsbury oil terminal. A JSO / Vladamir Morozov image.

    I’m going to end this quickly because I’m suffering from a temporary health condition (Baker’s cysts) that causes a lot of pain. My reasoning is affected because of the pain and the painkillers that I’m taking.

    JSO activists have no choice but to cause disruption. The climate crisis is a huge, real and immediate crisis.

    JSO are very concerned with the safety of their participants. Marches are stewarded very well.

    There is a choice to get arrested or not. JSO know the boundaries, how far they can push it until they are arrested. I was marching in the area around Parliament. Although there were arrests, those arrested were willing to be arrested.

    Leafleting for JSO is challenging because you meet people who have a go at you.

    JSO were not keen on letting me have the megaphone because they didn’t know me and didn’t know what I was going to say in the presence of many police officers.

    There is a policy of getting out of the way of emergency vehicles despite what Mayor of London Sadiq Khan and others claim.

    Just Stop Oil’s Phoebe Plummer who threw soup on Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers at the National Gallery in London.
    The painting is undamaged because it was behind glass.

    ed: Just Stop Oil’s demand is no NEW oil or gas.

  • The Green Party calls on Rishi Sunak to show real leadership on the climate

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    The Green Party co-leader Carla Denyer calls on UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to show real leadership saying

    “Global leadership must begin at home and we need to see a clear commitment from this government to keep fossil fuels in the ground. This means ditching oil, coal and gas for good in favour of renewables and a nationwide programme of home insulation to cut both emissions and energy bills.

    With the UN warning that there is no credible pathway to keeping temperatures within the 1.5C limit, this year’s COP negotiations are more important than ever. The UN says that only an urgent transformation of society and our economy can avoid disastrous climate impacts. We need the UK government to rise to this challenge, show global leadership and help create a more secure and sustainable society and economy at home and abroad.”

  • Donate to Just Stop Oil here

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    I’ve just donated £10.00 to Just Stop Oil here using my full name, shame it’s not appearing ;)

    ed: Dear oh dear, it seems to have broken …

    later ed: I wonder if it’s my name – it’s [3/11/22 I did publish my full name here. I am totally willing to show that I support Just Stop Oil. I’ve removed my name because I’m concerned that it may affect search engine rankings for the whole blog.]

  • BP reports staggering profits

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    Image credit: Mike Mozart – Creative Commons

    Left Foot FORWARD: BP reports staggering profits as oil and gas prices surge

    Oil and gas giant BP has reported profits of £7.1bn between July an September 2022. The staggering bumper profits come as oil and gas prices remain high following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

    BP’s profits, which are double that of the same period last year, have been slammed by environmental groups and the left, who have highlighted both the climate and cost of living crises – the latter being largely driven by energy prices. There have also been renewed calls for increasing the windfall tax on fossil fuel companies.

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    The reports of BP’s mega-profits come just days after Shell reported similar figures. Shell made £8.2bn between July and September 2022 and did not pay anything in the oil and gas windfall tax. That’s because of a loophole in the windfall tax which gives tax breaks to companies for investing in more fossil fuel extraction. BP has said it will pay $800m in windfall tax this year.