Campaigners stage march to cut its Council ties with Big Oil
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Divest East Sussex, a campaign group that opposes fossil fuels, has staged a march aiming to “cut the ties between East Sussex County Council and Big Oil.”
The group is urging East Sussex County Council to sever its connections with Big Oil, which includes some of the world’s largest publicly traded oil and natural gas producers, such as BP, Shell, and Chevron.
Divest has been campaigning against these companies for the past ten years.
Divest said that the council has invested “tens of millions of pounds of local people’s pension monies” in oil and gas companies through the East Sussex Pension Fund.
Pension Fund member Sarah Hazlehurst said, “From cyclones in Mozambique to fires in California, we’re already seeing the deadly impact of over 1C of global warming, particularly in the Global South.”
Hazlehurst added, “Yet more than four and a half years after declaring a ‘climate emergency’, East Sussex County Council is still refusing to divest the East Sussex Pension Fund from the giant oil and gas companies – like Shell and BP – that are expanding the fossil fuel system and driving the climate crisis.”
“This is a catastrophic failure of leadership. It’s time for ESCC to start treating the climate emergency as an emergency, and to cut its ties to Big Oil by making a public commitment to fully divest the fund from fossil fuels.”
The group emphasised that preventing even greater and deadlier climate chaos means immediately ending the expansion of the fossil fuel system.
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