Wednesday, April 27, 2022

"Five Oil Pipeline Valves Reportedly Shut Down By German Activists"

There's one way to make a point.

If those weapons pouring into Ukraine should start making their way west the activists could do it Red Army Faction/Baader-Meinhof style.

From OilPrice:

German activists have allegedly succeeded in halting the flow of crude oil through pipelines at five separate locations in protest against the country’s foot-dragging on a ban on Russian oil.

A group calling itself “The Uprising of the Last Generation” claims to have breached the pipelines at emergency stations on Wednesday where climate activists activated shut-off valves and then chained themselves to the valves.

According to Reuters, the five valve locations were in Berlin, Munich, Leipzig, Greifswald and Koblenz. 

The group said that “crude oil pipelines had been turned off all over Germany and the flow of oil had been interrupted”. Members of the group filmed the shut-offs, posting video and photographs on Twitter and Instagram.

According to Germany’s Tichys Einblick daily, it was unclear at the time of writing if crude oil flows along this pipeline had effectively been halted.

Activists are demanding that the government of Olaf Scholz work faster to find ways to reduce Germany’s dependence on Russian energy sources.

"We are in a climate emergency! The German government not only ignores it, it plans to fuel it further. To now want to drill for oil in our North Sea - this is madness that you must stop, Mr. Habeck!" activist Edmund Schulz said in a statement....

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