Protest group Just Stop Oil hit the headlines earlier this month after blocking the entrance to a series of oil facilities across the UK.
The activists first entered the public eye in March with a series of protests, which included chaining themselves to goalposts at football grounds.
Their demonstrations come as energy bills skyrocketed in the UK following a rise in the price cap, sparking a cost of living crisis for millions of households.
But who are Just Stop Oil, and what are their demands?
Who are Just Stop Oil?
Just Stop Oil are a youth-led protest group calling for the UK government to put an end to all new fossil fuel projects to halt climate change.
Writing on a crowdfunding page the group says: “Allowing the extraction of new oil and gas resources in the UK is an obscene, genocidal policy that will kill our children and condemn humanity to oblivion. It just has to stop.”
Activists from Just Stop Oil told the Guardian they will mobilise “upwards of 1,000 people”.
They said their protests would be “a fusion of other large-scale blockade-style actions you have seen in the past.”
What protests have they done so far?
Louis McKechnie, 21, made national news after tying himself to a goalpost at Goodison Park in March during the Everton vs Newcastle game.
The game was paused as the mechanical engineering student was removed by pitch staff while sporting an orange t-shirt with the words “Just Stop Oil” emblazoned across the middle.
In a thread posted on the group’s social media accounts, Mr McKechnie said: “Report after report is telling me that my future is going to be dire, and my government is telling me not to worry and pay into a pension.
"But we have a choice. We can choose to highlight that our climate is breaking down, we can choose to resist this government that is betraying us, we can choose to step up and not stand by."
Just a day before, a 20-year-old protester from the group, named Kai, attempted to glue himself to the post during Liverpool’s win over Arsenal at the Emirates. He was swiftly removed by security staff.
In early April, members of the group teamed up with Extinction Rebellion protesters to block the entrances to oil facilities across the UK.
Just Stop Oil claimed to have prevented access to ten “critical” terminals across the country, including in Hythe, Birmingham and West London.
The group also said that more than 30 people had climbed on top of tankers at the Navigator Oil Terminal in Thurrock, Essex.
What are their demands?
The group demand an immediate end to all new fossil fuel supply projects.
They are urging the government to “make a statement that it will immediately halt all future licensing and consents for the exploration, development and production of fossil fuels in the UK”.
They claim that transitioning away from fossil fuels will “help cut energy bills and help us meet our international climate obligations”.
Many of their members have also previously been involved in non-violent civil disobedience protests with Extinction Rebellion or Insulate Britain, according to the Guardian.
The group say they are holding between 20 and 30 public meetings a week, online and in-person, in locations across the UK.
They say they will achieve their aims through “nonviolent civil resistance”, which involves tactics such as “strikes, boycotts, mass protests and disruption”.
