OGC Past Actions

15.12.25 We attempted a Rosebank action of our own on Trafalgar Square, but were quickly ushered away by the "Heritage Stewards".

Throughout autumn 2025. Rosebank oil/gas field development in the North Sea.: Actions took place at seven locations. Earlier this year we wrote to the Government, expressing concern about this major development by Norwegian oil giant Equinor and Israeli/UK Ithaca, which had been temporarily halted. There is a risk that Parliament may still permit the development to go ahead in the spring. We joined in other similar actions throughout the autumn.

28-31.08.25 The UK sent four delegates to the International Conference of European Grandparents for Climate (www.grandparentsforclimate.eu) in Oslo. The forty delegates from 10 countries also joined more than a dozen environmental groups in a pre-election protest march against the continued drilling for gas and oil. Several of us will be attending the next EGC conference in The Hague in September.

07.05.25 A group of us joined other protestors outside Barclays Bank AGM in London, and one of our members (who held a couple of shares - out of 14 billion ordinary shares!) asked a question of the Board relating to their policy of providing banking services for and investing in fossil-fuel companies. You can hear and see our action here: https://youtu.be/FJ8u4-Jo3bk?si=I-MuJDBQuChlupyM

30.01.25 We joined hundreds of others outside the Appeal Court in London to campaign for the release of the imprisoned climate activists. Of the sixteen, just three had their sentences reduced by a small amount.

In response to our letter to the Government about our concerns about the development of the Rosebank oil field, the Environment Minister replied that no NEW licences were to be given unless a full assessment of SCOPE 3 emissions were first carried out (Scope 3 refers to emissions from the use of fossil fuels from SUBSEQUENT use of these fuels). We remain concerned that the publication of such an assessment by no means guarantees that such developments may not still go ahead.

14.06.26 TWO FOR THE PRICE OF ONE This year's Big Green Week, organized by our partners, The Climate Coalition, took place across the UK. It also coincided with a large number of screenings of the film of the People's Emergency Briefing of Climate and Nature Crisis. A further more than 2 000 screenings are already underway or being planned.

28.03.26 Some of us joined the march in London organized by Together Alliance. Whether we follow the Organizers' counting (half a million), or that of the Police (50 000 ), this was a massive and good-humoured event, where we made friends with our neighbours - the much larger campaigning groups like Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and Extinction Rebellion. It was a tight squeeze! The event was also prominently reported on BBC Radio, and we carried out a couple of our own brief interviews.

17.03.26 A number of us, together with other groups, lobbied our MPs in Westminster about the threat to the right to protest. We also attempted (without luck) to deliver a letter to Ed Miliband's office about the "COP30 and a half" conference in Colombia in April (featured elsewhere on this website).

Earlier that day a group of fifty Quakers (and others) held a silent vigil outside Scotland Yard after recent arrests of members of one of the users' groups at Westminster Meeting House.

PAST ACTIONS

Earlier that day a group of fifty Quakers (and others) held a silent vigil outside Scotland Yard after recent arrests of members of one of the users' groups at Westminster Meeting House.

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