Climate activists have smashed the windows at Barclays new offices in Glasgow.
Extinction Rebellion Scotland campaigners broke the windows at the offices at Clyde Place Quay on Monday morning before holding banners stating 'This is an Intervention' and 'Stop Funding Rosebank'.
The protest was part of the organisation's 'Better without Barclays campaign of disruption' which is happening across hundreds of branches across the UK calling for an end to its funding of fossil fuel crisis.
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Two activists took their campaign to the Glasgow branch to damage the window while wearing safety goggles and Kevlar gloves while ensuring the safety of bank staff, fellow activists, and passersby.
XR Scotland will be holding a protest outside the bank this afternoon featuring speakers from Biofuelwatch, Fuel Poverty Action, Fridays for Future, Tipping Point, and Bank Track.
The action comes in response to Barclays alleged funding the proposed Rosebank Oil Field by providing stakeholders Equinor with $2.46 billion of backing since 2015. Rosebank contains over 500 million barrels of oil, which if burned would produce the equivalent CO2 emissions of 28 low-income countries combined.
Myke Hall of Extinction Rebellion Scotland said: "Barclays are putting up the money to develop Rosebank. They want to extract and burn millions of barrels of oil to get even richer. It's disgustingly greedy and it's violence against all life. We will not tolerate it"
Alex Cochrane of Extinction Rebellion Scotland added: "Barclays are the biggest funders of fossil fuel in Europe.. Their greed is exploiting and creating a future of famine, displaced people and global suffering.
"We all know we need to wean ourselves off fossil fuels. We all know the climate crisis is already hitting us yet Barclays still refuses to do the right thing for us. For all our sakes, they must stop using our money to fund fossil fuels."
We previously reported how protesters locked onto an oil barrel blocked the entrance to an investment bank in Glasgow a year on from the COP26 summit.
Earlier this month, activists returned to JP Morgan on Waterloo Street to highlight 'the failure of the COP process'.
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