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Sian Traynor

Extinction Rebellion hit Edinburgh to cause chaos at lavish oil company dinner

Extinction Rebellion protestors targeted an Edinburgh energy dinner on Friday in a dispute over North Sea oil.

The climate activists blocked the doorway at the EICC in the city centre as the venue was welcoming guests from the Scottish Energy Forum.

Scheduled to host the company's annual dinner, a number of people could be seen waiting to enter the dinner as the group interrupted proceedings.

There to protest against the expansion of North Sea oil and gas, the group brought a selection of banners - which appeared to read 'No Dinner for Killers' and 'No Future in Fossils Fuels'.

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Standing behind some metal barriers, the group also shouted chants and played music in order to cause a disruption at the dinner at around 7.15pm.

Extinction Rebellion Scotland (Extinction Rebellion Scotland)

Joined by activists from Stop Cambo, the protestors claimed the SEF is lobbying to expand oil and gas production in the North Sea.

Alex Cochrane, an activist from Extinction Rebellion Scotland said: “Fossil fuel executives are openly celebrating their record-breaking profits rather than urgently acting to change their catastrophic business model.

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"Expanding North Sea gas and oil production is a colossal failure of global leadership from the UK Government who just months ago claimed climate leadership as the hosts of the UN climate summit COP26. They are failing to act and it is people who are suffering, especially in the global south.”

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