Activists plan to stage a 'march slowly' around Bristol city centre this weekend. Just Stop Oil campaigners will descend on our streets to demand ministers stop investing in fossil fuel extraction.
Protesters plan to gather at Queen Square at around 1pm on Saturday before marching through central roads. The demo will also be in honour of Xavier Gonzalez-Trimmer, an Insulate Britain campaigner who was found dead in London last month.
He was due to stand trial at Inner London crown court accused of causing a public nuisance. His death is not being treated as suspicious.
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The group's spokesperson posted on Facebook: "We sprayed the treasury to symbolise the blood on Rishi Sunak's hands back in 2022 when he was chancellor. Nothing has changed. Grinding fuel poverty. Fossil fuel addiction. Cheap onshore wind power still blocked. Homes still uninsulated. Deepening cost of living crises.
"Enough is enough. Stand against this failing regime."
Activists from Animal Rebellion have also been staging a protest this week by stickering egg boxes in supermarkets across Bristol. They say they are calling out the government for "failing to act to prevent a bird flu pandemic" as the virus continues to spread throughout the country.
The stickers, which have been put on egg boxes in Sainsbury’s, Tesco, Coop and Waitrose shops in Clifton and other parts of the city, have a QR code which links to a video "explaining the reality" of factory farming chickens and hens, the solution to which they state is a "plant-based food system".
In 2020, renewable energy support was greater than fossil fuel support for the first time, according to the Guardian. However, fossil fuels have been receiving greater additional investment recently. From 2020 to 2021 they received an extra £1bn support from the government compared with 2020, a 10.7 per cent increase. For renewable energy in the same year, total support for projects increased by just £1m, or 0.01 per cent.
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