Climate Camp has set up camp outside the global headquarters of Royal Bank of Scotland to highlight their funding of dirty energy. Unless we park our tanks on their lawns nothing will change. It is only by taking direct action that we effect change.
A report revealed today by the Sunday Herald shows that RBS has provided nearly £13 billion worth of funding to the oil and gas industries since it was bailed out by the taxpayer two years ago. This is at a time when small businesses are being starved into bankruptcy through lack of finance.
Also see
Climate Camp vs RBS – We’ve arrived
Why should state-owned companies be ethics-free zones?
RBS: £13bn funding to companies blamed for global warming
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Climate change campaigners turn up the heat on RBS chiefs
RBS Porkies and Climate Camp Frogs
Tags: clean energy, Climate Camp, democracy, direct action, energy, RBS, Royal Bank of Scotland, tar sands
