BP employees work at home as Greenpeace blocks headquarters
The environmental group says volunteers arrived at BP’s office in London at 3am on Monday
London — BP is continuing normal operations as employees work from home after Greenpeace put up barriers at the entrances to its London headquarters. The environmental group said volunteers arrived at BP’s office at 3am on Monday. They “encased themselves in specially designed, toughened containers weighing several tonnes each, blockading all the HQ’s main entrances and preventing staff from entering the building,” the organisation said in a statement. The protest echoes a similar days-long event organised by activists from Extinction Rebellion in April. The group glued themselves to trains, blockaded parts of London and vandalised Royal Dutch Shell’s UK headquarters to draw attention to a “climate emergency”. Greenpeace said Monday it will stop protesting at BP if the company ends its investment in oil and gas entirely and becomes a renewable-energy company, or if it winds down its operations and chooses to go out of business. Greenpeace said its volunteers had enough food and wate...
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