Greenpeace projects on Shell HQ as oil giant posts $53,241-per-minute profits
Photographs and video of the various projections are available here.
In response to Shell announcing their first-quarter profits this morning, Maja Darlington, climate campaigner for Greenpeace UK, said:
“As bombs fall and bills go up, more billions roll in for Shell, one of the UK’s top war profiteers. Shell is making $53,241 per minute while millions of people across Britain are dreading their next energy bill. Our fossil fuelled economy is rigged in favour of oil giants like Shell – whether it’s war or wildfires, they profit, we pay.
“In the twenty-first century we have cheaper, cleaner alternatives that we can use to power Britain without anybody being bombed. We don’t need to let the fossil fuel industry hold us to ransom and pass on the costs of endless wars and limitless pollution. The cost of living crisis, the climate crisis, the middle-east crisis, these are all oil industry operating costs. We need to stop subsidising them, introduce new taxes to make them pay and start taxing their obscene profits properly.”
At the weekend a team of Greenpeace activists projected the truth about the source of Shell’s huge profits, announced at 7am this morning, onto their global headquarters by the Thames in London.
The team projected onto the huge office building from a number of different angles, including from the other side of the Thames, and also onto a nearby Shell garage, all in central London.
The projection includes footage from the conflict in Iran as well as footage of the extreme weather that has been increasing around the world in recent years, and footage of Shell’s CEO Wael Sawan.
Photographs and video of the various projections are available here.
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