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Superglue and molasses: Climate Camp protests change gears in Scotland
photo by Jody Boehnert (ecolabs on Flickr CC)
Climate change activists stepped up their game and held a rash of demonstrations in Edinburgh, Scotland today.
Members of the activist group Climate Camp have been set up outside the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) global headquarters in Edinburgh since last week in order to protest the bank’s financing of the fossil fuel industry. But today has seen a sudden increase in protest activity, with separate actions also taking place at Forth Energy in Leith, Edinburgh and at Cairn Energy in the city’s financial district as well as at other RBS locations.
From a report in The Herald Scotland:
A Climate Camp spokesman said seven activists had superglued themselves to the car park of the RBS industrial estate at the Gyle Shopping Centre in Edinburgh. Another group of seven activists climbed Forth Energy’s building. Two scaled the roof and hung banners reading “Bio mass health hazard”. At one point, according to the Climate Camp group, three were inside and two chained themselves to the front of the building. Activists said they had also created an “oil slick”, using molasses, outside Cairn Energy’s offices in Lothian Road.
According to an article in the Telegraph, there are reports that several windows were smashed with golf balls during protests on Sunday. But they would focus on that, wouldn’t they?
The activists are upset that a publicly owned bank, funded by taxpayers, is bankrolling what they term the ‘climate crisis’. The government owns 84% of RBS.
For more on the Climate Camp protests in Edinburgh, including video and eyewitness accounts, check out the Guardian’s Environment Blog:
Climate Camp day of action – live
Tags: activists, bank, Cairn, camp, change, climate, Edinburgh, energy, Forth, molasses, protest, RBS, Scotland, superglue
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