A third of petrol stations across the south have been forced to close after Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion protesters block access to three oil terminals.
A third of the south’s petrol stations have run out of fuel due to protests over oil, a campaign group has claimed.
Fair Fuel UK Campaign said it has ‘credible intelligence’ that one in three stations in southern England have run out of petrol and or diesel, due to Just Stop Oil andJust Stop Oil protestors have been blocking access to oil terminals in Essex, three oil terminals in Hertfordshire, Essex and Warwickshire, demanding that the Government stops new oil and gas projects.
The government has said only one terminal was out of action on Sunday afternoon as a result of the action, while 338 arrests have been made since the protests began on 1 April – and another 26 arrests are expected to be made.Police have accused demonstrators of dangerous behaviour. Assistant Chief Constable Glen Pavelin said: ‘We cannot stand by while criminal acts are being committed, and lives are being put at risk, in the name of protest.‘We are not anti-protest.‘Today’s protest is exceptionally dangerous due to where the protesters have located themselves within the site.’
At the BP Kingsbury Terminal the group dug a tunnel and are holed up, trying to avoid police arrests, while 80 demonstrators swarmed the Buncefield and Grays terminals and locked themselves inside.
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