Ordinary people are going to suffer and die from the cost of living crisis and climate breakdown. Mya Bain, 35 an animator and science communicator from Derbyshire said: Stopping new fossil fuel projects is the simple first step our government needs to take to start protecting its people. Our government is failing to take the steps necessary to address the cost of living and climate crisis, so if sitting in a road being yelled at by motorists is what it takes to get their attention, I’ll keep doing it. Fighting climate change is the ultimate preventative medicine. I wouldn’t be doing my job properly as a foster carer, vet and mother if I wasn’t doing my utmost to ensure an inhabitable planet for everyone. Jessica Upton, 53 a mother of two and veterinarian from Oxford said: Our Prime Minister has made it clear that she has no plan to deal with the crisis that does not involve further suffering for the most vulnerable and tax giveaways for the rich. Just Stop Oil’s occupation of Westminster also comes against a background of an energy price hike on October 1st which means almost 8 million households are expected to fall into fuel poverty by April 1st 2023, while energy companies make massive profits. The NSTAs chief executive said yesterday that a number of gas projects in the southern North Sea will be fast-tracked although this will do nothing to reduce the UK’s dependence on imported fossil fuels.
The actions this month are timed to coincide with the planned launch of a new round of oil and gas licensing by the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) in which over 100 new licences for oil and gas projects are likely to be awarded. Some have glued themselves to the road, and a number have locked on. The group sat down on the approach roads to Lambeth Bridge at 11.30am establishing roadblocks and halting traffic on two key roads. Around 30 supporters of Just Stop Oil have disrupted traffic in Westminster today for the fifth day in a row to demand an end to new oil and gas.
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