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hi - details below about national day of action on monday - <BR>
amongst other things in sheffield we'll be leafletting outside the royal bank of scotland at 1pm on monday, if you want to come along.<BR>
if you can't come, maybe send them an email or fax on monday as this will give more weight to the direct action happening.<BR>
cheers julie x<BR>
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<BR>National climate protests against Royal Bank of Scotland, ‘The Oil and Gas<BR>Bank’<BR> <BR>12 October 2007<BR>For immediate release<BR> <BR>On Monday, Royal Bank of Scotland branches and offices around the country<BR>will be targeted by climate activists to highlight the bank’s massive<BR>investment in the oil, gas and aviation industries.<BR> <BR>The protests are a follow-up to August’s high-profile Camp for Climate<BR>Action at Heathrow (1), and have been called for by the UK Rising Tide<BR>network (2).<BR> <BR>‘On Monday, our actions will show RBS that their role in financing climate<BR>change is now in the public spotlight. We’ll be making sure that RBS<BR>customers, staff and the public know that RBS, more than any other bank,<BR>is providing the financial fuel driving climate change’, said Susan<BR>Dempsey, an activist from Manchester.<BR> <BR>RBS calls itself the ‘Oil and Gas Bank’, and is the primary UK funder of<BR>fossil fuel extraction. RBS provides oil companies with the capital to<BR>build and operate drilling rigs, pipelines and oil tankers in some of the<BR>most sensitive and unstable places in the world. Through Aviation Capital,<BR>RBS financing allows airlines to expand their fleets and put more more<BR>planes into the skies.<BR> <BR>The thirty oil and gas finance deals RBS signed between 2001 and 2006 will<BR>create 655 million tonnes of carbon emissions over the next 15 years,<BR>which is more than the UK’s entire annual emissions. (2)<BR> <BR>‘Banks like RBS who profit handsomely from climate-destroying projects<BR>have stood in the shadows for too long, but they are as guilty as the oil<BR>companies. If carbon dioxide molecules had corporate tags of<BR>responsibility, the atmosphere would be full of RBS logos mingling with<BR>those of BP, Exxon and Shell’, said Martin Redfern, from London.<BR> <BR>More than 20 protests are expected in towns and cities across the UK. A<BR>press release will be issued on Monday containing a summary of the day’s<BR>actions.<BR> <BR>ENDS<BR> <BR>Contact for interviews: 07961 917 535, info@risingtide.org.uk<BR> <BR>1. The Camp for Climate Action took place from 14-12 August 2007 near<BR>Heathrow Airport. www.climatecamp.org.uk<BR> <BR>2. Rising Tide is a grassroots network that takes creative direct action<BR>against the root causes of climate change. www.risingtide.org.uk<BR> <BR>3. Source: ‘The Oil and Gas Bank: RBS and the financing of climate<BR>change’, Platform/Friends of the Earth/Bank Track/People and Planet/New<BR>Economics Foundation, 2007. www.peopleandplanet.org/dl/ddd/rbs_report.pdf<BR> <BR><BR><br /><hr />Join Lavalife for free. <a href='http://a.ninemsn.com.au/b.aspx?URL=http%3A%2F%2Flavalife9%2Eninemsn%2Ecom%2Eau%2Fclickthru%2Fclickthru%2Eact%3Fid%3Dninemsn%26context%3Dan99%26locale%3Den%5FAU%26a%3D30288&_t=764581033&_r=email_taglines_Join_free_OCT07&_m=EXT' target='_new'>What are you waiting for?</a></body>
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