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![]() Just Stop Oil slow walk up Whitehall, May 2023 | |
Formation | 14 February 2022 |
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Type | Coalition |
Purpose | Climate change mitigation Fossil fuel non-proliferation Policy change Social change Environmental protection Sortition |
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Methods | Civil resistance, direct action, vandalism |
Fields | Environmental movement Climate movement |
Affiliations | A22 Network[1] Youth Demand[2] |
Website | juststopoil |
Just Stop Oil is a British environmental activist group primarily focused on the issue of human-caused climate change. The group aims to convince the British government to commit to ending new fossil fuel licensing and production using civil resistance, nonviolent direct action, traffic obstruction, and vandalism.[3] The group was founded in February 2022 and began protesting at English oil terminals in April 2022.[4] The group has received criticism for its disruptive and often illegal methods of activism.[5][6][7][8]
Hundreds of protesters from climate group Just Stop Oil blocked 10 critical oil terminals across the UK on Friday morning, climbing on top of fuel tankers and forcing Exxon Mobil, one of the country's largest privately owned underground oil pipeline distribution networks, to temporarily suspend operations at some of its sites.
Home secretary Suella Braverman will unveil plans on Sunday to grant police new powers to take a more "proactive" approach to counter tactics favoured by climate activists such as Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion.
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