Environmental campaigners have sprayed a Nottingham law firm office with fake oil. Extinction Rebellion and HS2 Rebellion disrupted the offices of law firm Eversheds Sutherland across the UK, including a Nottingham centre.
The building in Canal Street saw protesters gather outside in hazmat suits who used fire extinguishers to spray fake oil. The protest took place at 12noon on Tuesday, February 28.
The campaigners say they are protesting against the law firm’s contribution to global heating and environmental destruction.
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Eddie Francis, 74, a retired joiner from Lincoln said: "I'm taking this action today because I'm so frightened by the climate crisis that I feel this is a necessary and appropriate response. Eversheds need to cut the ties with the fossil fuel industry. Spraying non-toxic, washable fake oil on the offices of a firm that seeks to protect that destructive industry is trivial compared with the damage they're doing to our planet. They need calling out."
Protesters also took to Eversheds Sutherland’s City of London headquarters where activists in city suits and white masks had fake blood on their hands held inflatable globes of the Earth.
In Birmingham, campaigners spray painted Cut the Ties To Fossil Fuels on the Colmore Row building and in Callahan Square, Cardiff, rebels sprayed fake oil and glued themselves to the front door of the office.
The protests are part of a series of ‘Cut the Ties’ protests which launched in November 2022 simultaneously at 13 sites across London. The campaign targets organisations who prop up the fossil fuel economy.
Eversheds Sutherland have been contacted for comment.
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