Just Stop Oil took action in Scotland for the first time, with more than 50 activists blocking an oil terminal in Glasgow.
Shortly before sunrise on Tuesday, about 40 supporters of the campaign against civil fossil fuel production blocked the entrance to the Nustar Clydebank terminal, locking themselves up and climbing on tankers.
Fourteen other activists made their way inside, with three climbing into a storage silo and the rest climbing into pipelines, distributing fuel around the site and halting operations.
The move marks a change in the group’s strategy, which previously focused on oil terminals, tankers and petrol stations in the Midlands and South East England in a bid to disrupt oil supplies to London.
Just Stop Oil, which called on the government to promise a moratorium on new fossil fuel projects, said the action was prompted by plans for new oil and gas fields in the North Sea off the coast of Scotland.
Police officers walk past Just Stop Oil activists blocking the entrance to Glasgow’s Nustar Clydebank oil terminal. Photo: Andy Buchanan / AFP / Getty Images
Participants included Neil Rotney, 69, a retired oil and gas worker, who said: “Oil and gas in the North Sea do not offer energy security. The North Sea oil and gas industry has one priority, and that is not the climate crisis, it is not the future of oil and gas workers in the North Sea, and it is certainly not whether the poor can keep warm.
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“If the government was serious about a fair transition, we would see it here in Scotland. Where are the turbine plants in Scotland? Where are the yards for offshore wind platforms? Where are the projects for proper insulation of our houses? When will we get free public transport? ”
Supporters of Just Stop Oil have been arrested more than 1,200 times since the start of the campaign in early April. They have vowed to continue disrupting the UK’s fuel infrastructure until their demands are met.
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