Extinction Rebellion protest against Norway's plans to keep extracting oil until 2070

Record ID: 1436310

  • Title: Extinction Rebellion protest against Norway's plans to keep extracting oil until 2070
  • Date: 11th October 2019
  • Summary: (SOUNDBITE) (English) GEORGIANA KEABLE, EXTINCTION REBELLION NORWAY, SAYING: "So we think that we want to take a lot of this spirit that we found here in Berlin back to Norway. Because we're the world's seventh biggest CO2 producer. We are taking oil out in 25 different countries. And we are still increasing our emissions. Nearly all the other countries in Europe are reducing their emissions but in Norway, even though we have hydroelectric power, we're increasing emissions. So we are behaving completely crazily." CLIMATE PROTECTION PROTESTERS ON EXTINCTION REBELLION (SOUNDBITE) (English) GEORGIANA KEABLE, EXTINCTION REBELLION NORWAY, SAYING: "The alternative is social unrest, war, mass migration. In the end we're actually not going to survive as a species unless we stop taking oil out of the grounds. And we in Norway have just opened up a huge new oil fields on the 5th of October. Massive new oil field. So we are driving the world towards extinction."
  • Embargoed: 25th October 2019 11:32
  • Keywords: climate change protection protest Berlin Extinction rebellion Norway oil
  • Location: BERLIN, GERMANY
  • City: BERLIN, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Topics: Environment,Climate Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA002B0NJ22V
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Extinction Rebellion activists protested in front of the Norwegian embassy on Friday against Norway's plans to keep extracting oil until 2070. According to the environmental protest organization, supporters from several nations took part in the protest.
    Extinction Rebellion accused Norway of being the world's seventh largest exporter of emissions and plans to keep producing oil until 2070.
    Georgiana Keable from Extinction Rebellion Norway told Reuters TV that they want to take the spirit of Berlin's environmental protests back to Norway, because they are still increasing emissions. "The alternative is social unrest, war, mass migration," she said. "We're actually not going to survive as a species unless we stop taking oil out of the grounds. And we in Norway have just opened up a huge new oil fields on the 5th of October. Massive new oil field. So we are driving the world towards extinction."
    (Production: Oliver Ellrodt, UteSwart)
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