Just Stop Oil
Just Stop Oil is a climate activist group in the UK using civil resistance with the aim of ensuring the UK Government commits to halting new fossil fuel licensing and production. It launched on 14 February 2022 and its ongoing oil terminal disruptions across England began on 1 April 2022. History. The group launched on 14 February 2022. On 13 March, members disrupted the 75th British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs). On 20 March, two members attempted to disrupt a football match at Arsenal's Emirates Stadium in London, but were intercepted. On 21 March, one member stopped  play at a football match at Goodison Park in Liverpool when he ran onto the pitch and zip-tied himself to a goalpost by his neck. The following day, one protester briefly made it onto the pitch at Molineux Stadium in Wolverhampton. On 24 March six protesters attempted to disrupt a match at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in north London. All were removed quickly, but the match was briefly stopped. Beginning 1 April, they have been conducting England-wide protests blocking 10 critical oil facilities, intending to cut off the supply of petrol to the southeast of England. The affected  sites were Exxon Mobil fuel terminals in Hythe, Birmingham and West London; three sites in Essex (Navigator oil terminal in Thurrock; Esso in Purfleet; and Askew Farm Lane, Grays); Buncefield oil depot, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire; Valero's Kingsbury Oil Terminal, Warwickshire; BP Oil Depot in Tamworth; and a site in Southampton. On 1 April, Exxon Mobil temporarily suspended operations at some of its sites. Some petrol forecourts were affected. Just Stop Oil have said they are inspred by the UK lorry drivers' protests in 2000, that paralysed petrol distribution. On 14 April, Just Stop Oil activists stopped and surrounded an  oil tanker in London, causing congestion on the M4 motorway. On 15 April activists targetted Kingsbury, Navigator and Grays oil terminals, blockading roads and climbing onto oil tankers. The same day it was reported that Navigator Thames, ExxonMobil and Valero had secured civil injunctions to prevent protest at its oil terminals. On 19 April, Just Stop Oil suspended its actions against fuel distribution for a week in the hope of action from the government. On 28 April, about 35 Just Stop Oil activsts sabotaged petrol pumps at two M25 motorway service stations (Cobham services in Surrey and Clacket Lane services  in Kent).