Just Stop Oil ends motorway protests after four days of disruption on M25

Climate activists Just Stop Oil are pausing their motorway protests after four days of disruption on M25. They said that they were ‘giving time to those in goverment who are in touch with reality to consider their responsibilities to this country at this time’. Just Stop Oil have been disrupting the M25 for four days in a bid to focus attention on the climate crisis. A Just Stop Oil activist on a overhead gantry on the M25 earlier this week In a statement on the pause in their activities, the group asked the prime minister Rishi Sunak to ‘consider his statement at Cop27, where he spoke of the catastrophic threat posed by the ravages of global heating.’Emma Brown, from Just Stop Oil, did not say whether the protest group would resume action on the M25, after announcing they were halting their disruption of the motorway on Friday.She told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: ‘We are giving the Government another chance to sit down and discuss with us and meet our demand, which is the obvious no-brainer that we all want to see, which is no new oil in the UK.’She would not say whether campaigners could return to the M25 if their demands are not met, but said: ‘How can we stop? This is a risk to our lives and to the lives of you and all of your listeners, so we can’t stop.’More to follow…