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Christmas present to the UK: Just Stop Oil buries 4.4 billion barrels of oil and gas

Just Stop Oil’s campaign since April 2022 has stopped 4.4 billion barrels of North Sea oil and gas from being extracted and burned. Per pound spent, that makes Just Stop Oil 3,780 times more effective than the ‘Gold Standard’ of Carbon Offsetting. [1] [2] Figures from the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA)‘s most recent report

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Three Just Stop Oil supporters appear in court for Stonehenge action

Three Just Stop Oil supporters are appearing in court today after taking action at Stonehenge to demand that the UK government commit to working with other governments to agree an equitable plan to end the extraction and burning of oil, gas and coal by 2030. [1] Niamh Lynch, 22, a student from Oxford and Rajan

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77 year-old Just Stop Oil supporter faces prison recall after Serco fail to fit tag

MEDIA STATEMENT FROM FAMILY AND FRIENDS OF GAIE DELAP Summary: 77 year old Gaie Delap released early on home detention curfew (HDC) to be returned to prison because tagging company unable to fit tag. Gaie was sentenced, alongside four co-defendants, to 20 months imprisonment in August 2024 for her part in a climate action protest

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COP 29 and the loss of 1.5C

by Indigo Rumbelow Where were you when we passed 1.5C of heating? As we pass by a global temperature rise of 1.5C, world leaders praise oil and gas as a gift from god, scientists declare record breaking heat, and thousands suffer climate disasters in towns still being advertised holiday resorts, myself and other climate defenders

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James O’Brien asks: “DO WE OWE JUST STOP OIL AN APOLOGY?” as hundreds die

James O’Brien has declared that the shocking scenes of death and destruction in Valencia, Spain have made him appreciate the importance of Just Stop Oil’s campaign. Just Stop Oil is demanding that the UK government work with others to end the extraction and burning of oil, gas and coal by 2030. [1] On the 3rd

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Climate breakdown and genocide in Gaza show Politics is Broken

A coalition of groups including Just Stop Oil, Youth Demand and Assemble are joining the National Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s march in central London this Saturday to tell Labour they must protect the people and stop arming Israel. [1] The Politics is Broken bloc has recruited thousands of people from the climate and nature, inequality and

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