Latest update November 23rd, 2024 1:00 AM
Latest News
Protesters board Shell’s vessel demanding fossil fuel giant, “Stop drilling. Start paying”
Kaieteur News – Four Greenpeace activists from Argentina, Turkey, the United States (U.S.) and the United Kingdom (U.K) on Tuesday boarded a British oil giant, Shell contracted vessel in the Atlantic Ocean with a banner bearing the message: “Stop Drilling. Start Paying”.
In a press release, Greenpeace highlighted that the oil giant has already made eye-watering profits off the back of inflated energy prices, driven up by Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Greenpeace protesters on their way to board Shell’s floating platform
As such, two days ahead of Shell’s profits announcement, four Greenpeace International activists boarded the White Marlin vessel at sea north of the Canary Islands in a peaceful protest against the climate devastation around the world caused by Shell and the wider fossil fuel industry, without paying a penny towards loss and damage.
The release explained that at 08:00hours (GMT), the protesters approached the 51,000-tonne heavy-lift vessel in three boats launched from Greenpeace’s Arctic Sunrise ship and used ropes to climb onto the deck.
The four activists are Carlos Marcelo Bariggi Amara, from Argentina; Yakup Çetinkaya, from Turkey; Imogen Michel from the UK and Usnea Granger from the US are now occupying the ship’s cargo, a Shell oil and gas platform. While, two other activists, Yeb Saño from the Philippines, and Waya Pesik Maweru from Indonesia attempted to join them but did not manage to board.
“The platform is a key piece of production equipment that will enable Shell to unlock eight new wells in the Penguins North Sea oil and gas field. The protestors are carrying enough supplies to occupy the platform for days,” Greenpeace stated.
Saño, who is executive director of Greenpeace Southeast Asia, signed up as a volunteer with Greenpeace International for the nonviolent direct action and is now on board the Arctic Sunrise.
He said: “Shell must stop drilling and start paying. We’re taking action today because when Shell extracts fossil fuels it causes a ripple of death, destruction and displacement around the world, having the worst impact on people who are least to blame for the climate crisis.”
He added, “Shell and the wider fossil fuel industry are bringing the climate crisis into our homes, our families, our landscapes and oceans. So we will take them on at sea, at shareholder meetings, in the courtroom, online and at their headquarters. We won’t stop until we get climate justice. We will make polluters pay.”
“They must take accountability for decades of profiting from climate injustice and pay for the loss and damage they’ve caused. We need a just transition towards cheap, clean, renewable energy in a way that benefits communities, workers and the climate,” Saño said.
Greenpeace reported that the White Marlin is carrying a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit for a redevelopment project, “as Shell seeks to squeeze every last drop of oil from the Penguins field.”
On the local front, Kaieteur News publisher Glenn Lall, has started his own peaceful protest in Guyana with hopes of securing a more favorable deal with better terms for the Guyanese people from American oil giant, ExxonMobil that is also seeing record shattering profits owed to the soaring energy prices.
Similar Articles
THE BLUNT OF THE DAY
Sports
Features/Columnists
Let us not be silent witnesses!
…Peeping Tom kaieteur News- Ray Daggers walked from Corriverton to Charity. It was a journey so epic it might have... more
Rising Gun Crimes in the Caribbean: Urgent Action required by all
By Sir Ronald Sanders Kaieteur News – There is an alarming surge in gun-related violence, particularly among younger... more
Weekend Cartoon
