Greenpeace Activists Cover U.K. Prime Minister’s Home with Anti-Oil Message

In the United Kingdom, five Greenpeace activists were arrested Thursday after climbing on the roof of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s mansion in northern England and draping his home in black fabric and displaying a banner reading “no new oil.” The peaceful action comes in response to Sunak’s approval of over 100 new licenses for oil and gas drilling in the North Sea to maximize domestic extraction of fossil fuels. This is Alex Wilson from Greenpeace speaking from Sunak’s mansion’s roof.

Alex Wilson: “We’re all here because Rishi Sunak has opened the door for a new drilling frenzy in the North Sea while large parts of our world are literally on fire. This will be a disaster for the climate. It won’t lower your energy bills. It’s not going to boost our energy security. The only people that are going to profit anything from this at all are the big oil companies. So Rishi needs to pick a side: oil profits or our future on a habitable planet.”