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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Damien Gayle

Just Stop Oil’s ‘spring uprising’ protests funded by US philanthropists

An arrest is made as activists from Just Stop Oil target a Shell Petrol station on the M25 motorway on April 28, 2022.
Police officers and activists from Just Stop Oil at a Shell petrol station on the M25 motorway on Thursday. Photograph: Guy Smallman/Getty Images

Just Stop Oil’s disruptive protests, blamed for petrol shortages across parts of England, have been funded by US philanthropists who say they want to incite a global “spring uprising” over climate change.

The environmental activists, whose oil terminal blockades have enraged ministers and rightwing commentators, have received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Los Angeles-based Climate Emergency Fund (CEF).

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