Just Stop Oil

Just Stop Oil
Formation14 February 2022; 2 years ago (2022-02-14)
TypeCoalition
PurposeClimate change mitigation
Fossil fuel non-proliferation
Policy change
Social change
Environmental protection
Sortition
Location
  • United Kingdom
MethodsCivil resistance, direct action, vandalism
FieldsEnvironmental movement
Climate movement
AffiliationsA22 Network[1] Youth Demand[2]
Websitejuststopoil.org

Just Stop Oil is a British environmental activist group primarily focused on the issue of human-caused climate change. The group aims to convince the British government to commit to ending new fossil fuel licensing and production using civil resistance, nonviolent direct action, traffic obstruction, and vandalism.[3]

The group was founded in February 2022[4] and began protesting at English oil terminals in April 2022.[5] The group has received criticism for its disruptive and often illegal methods of activism.[6][7][8][9]

  1. ^ Moench, Mallory (28 January 2024). "Protesters Just Targeted the Mona Lisa by Throwing Soup". TIME. Retrieved 28 June 2024.
  2. ^ Boffey, Daniel (17 July 2024). "'Revolutions are coming': who are Youth Demand and what do they want?". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 July 2024.
  3. ^ Gayle, Damien (1 April 2022). "Inside Just Stop Oil, the youth climate group blocking UK refineries". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 17 October 2022. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
  4. ^ Ball, Tom (15 February 2022). "Pressure group Just Stop Oil will target fossil fuel production". The Times. Archived from the original on 17 October 2022. Retrieved 22 October 2022.
  5. ^ Batchelor, Tom (1 April 2022). "Protesters block oil terminals forcing Exxon Mobil to stop operations". The Independent. Archived from the original on 14 April 2022. Retrieved 14 April 2022. Hundreds of protesters from climate group Just Stop Oil blocked 10 critical oil terminals across the UK on Friday morning, climbing on top of fuel tankers and forcing Exxon Mobil, one of the country's largest privately owned underground oil pipeline distribution networks, to temporarily suspend operations at some of its sites.
  6. ^ Daisley, Stephen (14 October 2022). "How to stop Just Stop Oil". The Spectator. Archived from the original on 1 November 2022. Retrieved 19 October 2022.
  7. ^ Townsend, Mark (15 October 2022). "Government to unveil crackdown on climate activism and strike action". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 17 October 2022. Retrieved 22 October 2022. Home secretary Suella Braverman will unveil plans on Sunday to grant police new powers to take a more "proactive" approach to counter tactics favoured by climate activists such as Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion.
  8. ^ "Climate Activists Throw Soup on Vincent van Gogh's 'Sunflowers' to Protest Fossil Fuels". Smithsonian Magazine. Archived from the original on 29 January 2023. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
  9. ^ Davis, Colin (26 October 2022). "Are Just Stop Oil's dramatic art museum protests hurting their own cause?". CNN. Archived from the original on 19 December 2022. Retrieved 7 November 2022.