Dorset-based environmental activist and operational safety consultant Caroline Dennett who publicly quit Shell last year over their double talk on climate change says:
“This incident is devastating environmentally, with damaging impact on our “Wild Isles” already depleted nature that Sir David Attenborough has been communicating these last few Sunday evenings.
It’s more evidence that we need to just stop oil, say no to new drilling and extraction, like the previously proposed new oil well near Puddletown here in Dorset. We need to transform the energy system, to end and recover from our 120 year addiction to fossil fuels. We need support for offshore wind projects, like the previously rejected Navitus Bay project. All existing genuinely clean renewables at our fingertips and in development need government support through policy change and funding, not £3 bn for North Sea’s Rosebank.
Given that Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council last week voted to divest the Dorset Pension Fund from Fossil Fuel investments and on Friday Dorset Council rejected planning permission for the Portland incinerator (another FF source with its plastic-burning intentions) there should be appetite to put a stop to Perenco’s Wytch Farm production site. They only serve the global market and its greedy shareholders.
Regards this specific incident, the HSE and safety consultants like myself will tell you that all incidents such as leaks and spills are preventable. However, profit-incentives drive recklessness, or failings in the process safety barriers through poor maintenance or uncontrolled risks. Whatever the root cause this incident was preventable, and we have no tolerance for further risks.
If you’re concerned about the state of our energy system and our planet, join us in London between 21st and 24th April, where we will peacefully surround Parliament and make our demands for a liveable future.”
Local campaigner and JSO spokesperson Mel Carrington, says:
“This is a further demonstration of why we need to Just Stop Oil – if climate breakdown and the collapse of human civilisation is not enough for you. Its time to pick a side. Either you are actively supporting civil resistance fighting for life or you are complicit with genocide. Join Just Stop Oil on a slow march in London from 24th April.”
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