UK — From Aug. 20-27, "thousands of people across the UK" will protest the recently green-lit Jackdaw project and all new oil and gas fields.
Organized by the Stop Cambo group, a series of actions will take place that week through local rallies, parliamentary lobbying and online.
The group said it is seeking to fight the planned approval of “dozens of new fossil fuel projects by the year 2025” and the opening of a new exploration licensing round this year.
The UK approved the Jackdaw gas field on June 1, and the project is expected to come online in the mid-2020s. At peak production rates, it could represent more than 6% of projected UK North Sea gas production in the middle of this decade, with operational emissions of less than 1% of the whole UK basin. That is enough energy to heat 1.4 million homes.
The #StopCambo movement, named after the protests against Shell’s Cambo oilfield project, said on its website that the decision of the UK government to approve Jackdaw on June 1 was placing "the narrow interests of Shell and its shareholders over the public good."
The #StopJackdaw campaign website states, “Starting on August 20, we're taking the fight back to the government, to Shell and to every oil and gas producer who thinks that they can burn our future and get away with it. We will not let them go ahead with Jackdaw, and we will continue to build a coalition strong enough to force the government to commit to no new fossil fuels and a just transition for all.”
The Stop Cambo group of activists is made up of individuals, grassroots groups and organizations across Scotland, the rest of the UK and the world who are dedicated to ending all new oil and gas extraction and bringing existing production within safe climate limits.
The group's website boasts, "We stopped Cambo. Now it's time to #StopJackdaw and all new oil and gas fields."
08.12.2022
