Campaign group plans ‘fossil fools day’ protests
29.03.08
Proclaiming April 1 'Fossil Fools Day,' climate change activists with the international Rising Tide network and its allies will be targeting the fossil fuel industry at over one hundred locations around the world on Tuesday.
The protests will focus on 'the companies responsible for runaway carbon dioxide emissions, as well as complicit governments and those promoting false solutions'. Targets in the UK include oil, gas, coal, aviation, agrofuel and carbon offset operations and headquarters.
Brian Kelly from Rising Tide said: ‘We are taking action to prevent the fossil fuel industry from destroying our future. Vested interests in business and government are bent on pursuing economic growth at all costs. We need to shrink, not protect, the fossil fuel economy if we are to survive climate change.’
While most activists are keeping their plans under wraps until the day, public events have been called for Parliament Square (where People and Planet will be building a coal power station complete with 12ft cooling towers), Porsche HQ in London (where a public apology will be issued on behalf of Porsche), the Department for Enterprise, Business and Regulatory
Reform (where WDM will be holding the world's first laugh-in over plans for new coal at Kingsnorth) and Manchester City Centre (for a parade touring the city's biggest fossil fools) to name but a few.
Protests are also planned in the USA, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa.
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