London, December 18, 2024, (Oilandgaspress) ––– Just Stop Oil’s campaign since April 2022 has stopped 4.4 billion barrels of North Sea oil and gas from being extracted and burned. Per pound spent, that makes Just Stop Oil 3,780 times more effective than the ‘Gold Standard’ of Carbon Offsetting.
Figures from the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA)‘s most recent report on the fossil fuel reserves in the North Sea have been used to show the impact of Just Stop Oil’s successful campaign to halt new oil and gas licences in the UK. This is equivalent to 1.8 billion tonnes of CO2 if burnt – more than 4 years of the UK’s total emissions.
A statistical summary of fossil fuels and emissions abated by Just Stop Oil over two years:
4.4 billion barrels
1.8 billion tonnes of CO2
1.4 million barrels per arrest
24 million barrels of oil per imprisonment
In the course of this campaign more than 3,000 people have been arrested, more than 1000 sent to trial, and more than 100 have been sent to prison. Currently there are 19 Just Stop Oil supporters held in UK prisons.
A Just Stop Oil spokesperson said today:
“Supporting Just Stop Oil is the most effective way that ordinary people can resist a harmful state. In a broken system, this is democracy. Anything less than nonviolent civil resistance is compliance with business as usual, which is a death sentence for millions.”
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