Five protesters have climbed onto gantry cranes supporting motorway signs at three points on the M25, prompting police to close sections of the road. Protesters have put up signs at junction 10 eastbound near Cobham, Surrey, and at the Poyle junction at Heathrow between junctions 14 and 15. The environmental protest group said more members are on the way as part of the planned action between Wednesday and Friday. “We are risking our political freedom to be here,” one protester said in a statement released on social media. “We don’t want to be here, but we feel like it’s what we have to do.” In a statement released on the group’s Twitter page, the organization declared the M25 “a site of political resistance against the UK government” and asked that “no one travel on this motorway from Wednesday to Friday this week” as it “will they’re blocking the highway.” A spokesman for Just Stop Oil said: “The main thing is that we have just seen temperatures of 40 degrees, which have been predicted for decades, maybe it is happening a bit faster, but it has just revealed how inadequately prepared the government is for climate change and the whole their policy, and basically, we’re just saying, it’s obvious now that we can’t continue.” The group is calling on the government to make a “substantial statement” that it will commit to ending licenses and consents for fossil fuel exploration, development and production in the UK, which is “the necessary first step to securing a sustainable future ».
