First up, From Politics UK:
🚨 BREAKING: Just Stop Oil announces an end to protests after the Government adopted its policy of halting new oil and gas licenses
— Politics UK (@PolitlcsUK) March 27, 2025
“It is the end of soup on Van Goghs, cornstarch on Stonehenge and slow marching in the streets”
The press release from juststopoil.org:
Just Stop Oil is hanging up the hi vis
Three years after bursting on the scene in a blaze of orange, at the end of April we will be hanging up the hi vis.
Just Stop Oil’s initial demand to end new oil and gas is now government policy, making us one of the most successful civil resistance campaigns in recent history. We’ve kept over 4.4 billion barrels of oil in the ground and the courts have ruled new oil and gas licences unlawful.
So it is the end of soup on Van Goghs, cornstarch on Stonehenge and slow marching in the streets. But it is not the end of trials, of tagging and surveillance, of fines, probation and years in prison. We have exposed the corruption at the heart of our legal system, which protects those causing death and destruction while prosecuting those seeking to minimize harm. Just Stop Oil will continue to tell the truth in the courts, speak out for our political prisoners and call out the UK’s oppressive anti-protest laws. We continue to rely on small donations from the public to make this happen.
This is not the end of civil resistance. Governments everywhere are retreating from doing what is needed to protect us from the consequences of unchecked fossil fuel burning. As we head towards 2°C of global heating by the 2030s, the science is clear: billions of people will have to move or die and the global economy is going to collapse. This is unavoidable. We have been betrayed by a morally bankrupt political class....
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Meanwhile, in China, from The State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China, March 31:
China discovers major oilfield in South China Sea
The China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) announced on Monday that it has discovered a major oilfield in the eastern South China Sea, with proven reserves exceeding 100 million tonnes.
The newly discovered Huizhou 19-6 oilfield marks a breakthrough in China's offshore oil exploration, as it is the country's first large-scale integrated clastic oilfield discovered in deep to ultra-deep layers, CNOOC said.
Situated about 170 km from Shenzhen in south China's Guangdong Province, the oilfield sits at an average water depth of 100 meters. Test drilling has yielded a daily production of 413 barrels of crude oil and 68,000 cubic meters of natural gas, demonstrating its potential....
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Factoids:
A rough definition of a "giant" oil field is anything 500 million barrels and above.
100 million tons is a bit over 700 million barrels.
Inside China the State Council Information Office is known as the Central Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party.
