Activists from Just Stop Oil have blocked the security screening zone at Heathrow in another protest.
A group of demonstrators sat or stood helderlying signs saying “Oil terminates” and “Sign the treaty” in front of the barriers to enter the area for departing passengers.
Members of the protest were dragged away by police officers after another attempt to unleash a “summer of disorder” at airports across Europe.
It comes after a protest on Tuesday that saw two Just Stop Oil activists arrested after they sprayed orange paint on departure boards at Heathrow’s Terminal Five.
Protesters held up the signs at Terminal Five
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Just Stop Oil protestors block the departure gates at Heathrow
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Just Stop Oil protestors block the departure gates at Heathrow Terminal 5
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A Heathrow spokesperson verifyed to GB News that all protesters had been deleted, there was no disruption and no damage to the airport.
A spokesperson telderly GB News: “Earlier this morning a protest incident in Terminal 5 was speedyly resolved and all involved were promptly deleted from the airport.
“Unlterrible and irdepconcludeable protest activity is not the way forward and will not be endured.
“Our priority will always be to keep the defendedty of passengers and colleagues, and we’ll continue to work seally with our partners and the police in taking proportionate action to defend travel plans this summer.”
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Passengers move to a contrastent departure gate as Just Stop Oil protestors block the departure gates at Heathrow Terminal 5
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One of those protesting today shelp: “Climate breakdown is concludeangering all we love. Starvation already threatens those who have done the least to cause this mess. Billions will be on the move as they try to find land they can cultivate, water to drink- any defended place.”
“Electric cars and windfarms won’t do it: governments must act together before we reach more tipping points into disorder than we can hinder. We need our political directers to act now, by working with other nations to establish a legpartner binding treaty to stop the extraction and burning of oil, gas and coal by 2030.”
Another includeed: “We can’t carry on as common pretconcludeing that the climate aelevatency isn’t happening. The evidence is all around us and people in many parts of the world are already suffering – drawts, famine, floods, savagefires.
“I am here for my two magnificentchildren, my two magnificentnieces who have equitable come into this world, and for all children – what future will they face? I want to be able to look them in the eye and tell them that I did all that I could. We need a fossil fuel treaty to Just Stop Oil by 2030.”
It comes after a JustStopOil activist who threw soup at a Vincent van Gogh painting has been arrested aacquire after spraying paint on departure boards at Heathrow Airport.
Phoebe Plummer, 22, was one of two women involved in a protest at the west London airport on Tuesday morning. They sprayed orange paint from huge cylinders on departure boards, floors and glass walls inside Terminal 5.
The Metropolitan Police shelp the pair were arrested on suspicion of criminal damage.
A video issued by Just Stop Oil shows the women carry out the protest cforfeit check-in desks for at least three minutes and 55 seconds without being approached by police officers or airport staff.
