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Extinction Rebellion UK newsletter
CLIMATE and social justice activists in Scotland have highlighted their opposition to food poverty by staging a series of stunts.
Members of This Is Rigged covered the Sainsbury’s branch in Glasgow’s Buchanan Street with red paint today as they demanded an end to “profiteering” by supermarkets.
The day before, the group entered Edinburgh Castle and smashed the glass case housing the Stone of Destiny, which had recently been returned to Scotland following the coronation of Charles Windsor.
Near the end of a year of high-profile interventions pressing for decisive action on climate change and a fair net-zero transition for workers, the group’s latest stunts are focused on the cost-of-greed crisis, which they argue is indivisible from the climate crisis.
The group warned that it would escalate actions in support of its demands that the Scottish government provide “food hubs” in every community and that supermarkets reverse their 24 per cent increase in baby food prices over the last two years.
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BRITAIN’S biggest oil and gas producer Harbour Energy’s whopping £337 million profit comes “at the expense of every living thing on the whole planet,” campaigners said today.
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It is thought that the company benefited from tax loopholes Prime Minister Rishi Sunak put in place while he was chancellor.
This means that for every £100 a company invests in new oil and gas capacity, they can benefit from as much as £45 in windfall tax relief.
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Climate activists This is Rigged commented: “The profit these private companies make is at the expense of every living thing on the whole planet, the least they can do is pay some f****** tax.
“The Orwellian windfall tax introduced by Mr Sunak provides massive tax loopholes for oil and gas companies meaning they can claim almost half the profits back, if they reinvest it directly into —not renewable energy — no, more oil and gas projects.
“That sounds like a bit of policy dreamt up by an arsonist, not a politician.”
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