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The British environmental activist group Stop Oil said on Thursday that it would stop his controversial climate protest stunts after a final demonstration in London in April.
“It is the end of soup on Van Goghs, Maïzena on Stonehenge and slowly marching on the street,” the group said in a statement, claiming that it had succeeded in stopping Great Britain to approve new oil and gas projects.
Founded in 2022, the oil simply stopped a prominent place after activists had adopted the characteristic orange colors of the group, had a series of headline-grabbels protests to increase consciousness about the risk of climate that is made by greenhouse gas emissions of fossil fuels.
The stunts include the aiming of paintings such as “sunflowers” by Vincent van Gogh with tomato soup and the daubing of the megalithic standing stones at Stonehenge with orange paint powder.
“Three years after cracking on stage in an eruption of Orange, we will hang the Hi Vis (high visibility vests) at the end of April,” the group said on Thursday.
“Just stop Oil's initial question to put an end to new oil and gas is now government policy, making us one of the most successful campaigns in recent history.”
Since he came to power in July 2024, the British Labor government has put an end to new oil and gas explorations in the North Sea and the last coal -fired power station of Great Britain.
Stop Oil said that on 26 April it would hold a final meeting at Parliament Square in London and “continue to tell the truth in the courts, to express for our political prisoners and call the oppressive anti-protest laws of the UK”.
Dozens of only stop oil monstruts have been arrested since the foundation of the group and the group said that AFP 15 was currently in prison.
Earlier this month, a court in London with one year with a five-year prison sentence reduced that on Just Stop Oil's 58-year-old co-founder Roger Hallam was accused of conspiracy for the plans to block the M25 Snelweg in an online phone call.
'Another approach'
Just stop oil confirmed the strategy change in a call with AFP and said it worked on a new project, but did not provide any details.
“While companies and billionaires are corrupting political systems around the world, we need a different approach,” said it.
“We create a new strategy to face this reality and to bear our responsibilities at the moment. Nothing less than a revolution will protect us against the coming storms.”
Over the years, the stunts of the activists have convicted of politicians, police and some parts of the public.
“I am sure … Many members of the public will be happy to hear that they can cause less disturbance in the future,” a spokesperson for British Prime Minister Keir Starmer told journalists on Thursday.
However, he denied that the government only stops with oil “a victory”.
“We have been very clear when it comes to oil and gas that it has had a future in our energy mix for decades,” he said.
Will McCallum, co-executive director of Greenpeace UK, defended the work of the group.
“Just stop that oil paid a tough price for elevating their voices at a time when politicians and companies try to silence peaceful demonstrators – on the street and in the courts,” he said.
“We should not allow us to make the right to protest the right to protest, because it is the right that all other rights depend on.”
In October 2022, two simply Stopoly Activists looked out of tomato soup over the glass that protected “sunflowers”. In November 2023, demonstrators took the screen over a painting by Diego Velazquez in the National Gallery in London with Hammers.
Last month, the police arrested 62 climate activists in the center of London after disturbed the traffic with a “slow march” that protested against the oil and gas policy of Great Britain.
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