On its opening day world's second largest oil conference was given a surprise by two "oily" naked protesters.
On the first day of Offshore Europe Exhibition 2009, Tuesday 8th September, at the world’s second largest oil conference, two climate change protesters shocked visitors with a naked protest.
The aim of the protest was to expose the naked truth of the contradictions between Scotland’s climate change policy and its continued oil exploration and production, and to highlight Scotland’s potential to lead the way on alternative energies.
The protesters undressed, covered themselves in an oil-like substance and displayed a banner reading ‘Climate Stinkers Uncovered’. They then walked through the entire exhibition to smiles, laughs and camera flashes from the other attendees. The protest was cut short by a group of security guards who encircled the protesters.
One of the protesters, Tilly Gifford, 23, said ‘Scotland is committed to 80% emissions cuts, but oil is wrecking our climate’.
Young artist and activist, Louis Galloway, 25, shouted ‘Without real cuts to oil consumption, the Scottish Climate Bill is nothing more than the Emperor’s New Clothes’.
An Aberdeen Police inspector, Dave Chambers, commented, ‘these were not the actions of normal human beings’.
The protesters were arrested and held overnight in the central Aberdeen police station. It is thought that both will appear in the Sheriff Court Wednesday morning.
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Amazing protest! Great stuff :)
We need to put more pressure on these assholes.. this is the fat cat rhetoric coming from the establishment at the moment:
''The UK’s North Sea oil and gas reserves could be worth an extra £787billion if they are fully exploited, a leading entrepreneur has said.
Sir Ian Wood, chairman of Aberdeen’s Wood Group, said on the opening of Offshore Europe in the city that the right tax incentives from the UK Government would allow the offshore industry to extract a further 25billion barrels in the years ahead.
That is more than twice the 12billion barrels that may be produced without additional government incentives to extract marginal reserves.
''UK Energy Minister Lord Hunt told the P&J the govern-ment was determined to extr-act as much oil and gas from the North Sea as possible.''
The article is here, and it mentions the protest briefly at the bottom:
http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1387951?UserKey=
This is a disgusting stance in the face of the faclimate change is already impacting the poor everywhere. Cimate change has resulted in an increase in floods, droughts and tropical cyclones. The intensity and frequency of hurricanes and cylones in increasing. Recently a whole peoples had to be evacuated from their island home due to sea level rise: http://www.climateimc.org/en/breaking-news/2006/09/29/carterets-be-evacuated-due-rising-sea-level