Climate Activists Karl Johans Gate Greta Thunberg
- Climate activists from Extinction Rebellion on Thursday block Karl Johans gate in Oslo at DNB's office.
- The action comes after around 200 activists blocked the road into the Mongstad refinery in Nordhordland earlier this week.
- The group writes in a press release that "hundreds of climate activists from all over Europe have traveled to Oslo".
Climate activists from Extinction Rebellion on Thursday block Karl Johans gate in Oslo at DNB‘s office.
The action comes after around 200 activists blocked the road into the Mongstad refinery in Nordhordland earlier this week. Among them was the Swedish activist Greta Thunberg. The 22-year-old is also present in Oslo on Thursday.
The group writes in a press release that “hundreds of climate activists from all over Europe have traveled to Oslo”.
– Here they have initiated a number of actions aimed at the financial sector and the politicians, which they believe earn and protect the oil industry. They have now established an occupation of Karl Johans gate, the main street in Oslo, which goes right past the Storting, writes the group.
The activists require the government to present a plan for phasing out oil and gas before the election in early September.
– It is wild that we do not have a plan for phasing out oil and gas, the fossil industry has no future, and it is completely unjustifiable to continue in the way we do. Our resistance continues here in Oslo, says spokeswoman Milla Haugen in Extinction Rebellion Norway in the press release.
– We are committed to having a good dialogue with NGOs and environmental organizations, says DNB press spokesman Vidar Korsberg Dalsbø to VG.
He writes that the bank respects the protesters’ right to say its opinion, as long as there are legal actions without the use of violence, vandalism or that they are plaguing customers or employees.
– A few protesters have entered our premises. So far, things have been quiet and quiet, and we expect they will leave the premises when they get an injunction, he writes.