(28 Aug 2020) The climate emergency activist group Extinction Rebellion unfurled a banner on London's Westminster Bridge that read "SHELL = DEATH" Friday, as part of a planned four-day-long demonstration across the UK.
The group targeted the fossil fuel giant on the protest's first day and protesters marched from the London Eye to Westminster Bridge, and back again after the banner drop, carrying signs denouncing Shell, as well as calling for government action.
One sign read "@GOVUK: Exclude fossil fuel companies from climate negotiations."
The group then gathered in the pedestrian pathway between the London Eye and a block of office buildings that includes the Shell building for a series of speeches.
Tamasin Cave, a pro-transparency lobbyist with the investigations organization Spinwatch, called on Shell and other fossil fuel companies to stop shifting the blame.
Taking aim at Shell's CEO Ben van Beurden and referring to a speech van Beurden gave to the London Times last year, Cave said, "He actually said, 'People should really stop eating strawberries in winter.' This is from a CEO of a company that was responsible – one company responsible for about 2 percent of all global emissions in the last 30 years. We are not responsible…companies like Shell are responsible."
Extinction Rebellion's protests will continue for the next three days in cities across the UK, targeting banks, petrol stations and the aviation and fossil fuel industries.
Local authorities are preparing for travel disruption as the activist group plans airport protests and roadblocks.
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