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Environmental Protesters Disrupt UK Oil & Gas AGM

Environmental protesters disrupted the AGM of UK Oil & Gas on Tuesday, June 28, leading to the suspension of the meeting.

Video filmed by Mia Watanabe shows demonstrators in the shareholder meeting holding a sign that reads “UK Oil & Gas Stop” and chanting “You’re part of the climate crisis”. One demonstrator attempts to read a statement before a man tries to remove her from the room.

Another clip shows protesters singing in a corridor outside the meeting room.

According to Drill or Drop, Joanna Warrington, a spokeswoman for Fossil Free London, who were behind the protest, said, “It’s time we held this company, and the whole destructive industry, to account. Their meetings and dirty business model of expansion at any human cost cannot carry on undisrupted.” Credit: Mia Watanabe via Storyful

Video transcript

[INTERPOSING VOICES]

- Stop it! Man, you're assaulting him.

- [INAUDIBLE] the climate crisis.

- [INAUDIBLE] climate crisis.

- It's killing people.

- Outrageous.

- And our planet.

- And our planet.

- We are here to stop you.

- We are here to stop you.

- Get your hands off her! That is assault! Get your hands off her!

Get your hands-- get your hands off her! You're disgraceful! You thugs!

- No more--

- Giving the meeting's interruption, we'll cancel the meeting or we'll--

- No more fossil fuels!

- We're here to tell you to stop trashing our climate.

- We're here to stop you to tell-- stop the climate.

- Disgraceful!

[INTERPOSING VOICES]

- --suffocating the life support systems that we all depend on.

- Right, so we're going to-- sorry. Sorry.

- --stop there because I've got a second point. And the second point is--

- We're adjourning the meeting again.

- --what sort of corporation are you if people are assaulted in your AGM and the people who are running the official business of the meeting are not interested either with dealing with the person who committed the assault--

- --ask a question--

- --or discussing--

[INTERPOSING VOICES]

- You are going down the [INAUDIBLE]

[INTERPOSING VOICES]

- Leave it in the ground. Said leave it in the ground. Leave it in the ground.

Said leave it in the ground. We said leave it in the ground. We said leave it in the ground.

We said, can you hear the sound? We said, leave it in the ground. Said, can you hear the sound? Said, leave it in the ground.

[INTERPOSING VOICES]

- You're causing the climate crisis.

- Hey, hey, that's assault! You're assaulting our man! Stop assaulting that man! You are assaulting that man! Stop assaulting that man!

[INTERPOSING VOICES]

- That is assault. Let go, then. That is assault. Stop it. Man, you're assaulting him!

- You are causing the climate crisis.

- You are part of the climate crisis.

- Assault!

- --killing people.

- Outrageous!

[INTERPOSING VOICES]

- What do we want is climate justice. When do we want it? Now. What do you want is--

- We are singing this [INAUDIBLE] All we are saying--