WAVING NOT DROWNING
If the words curling out of Bush’s lying mouth about climate change have you gagging join the Climate change protest at BP Grangemouth to call for justice. Between 1-3pm today (Tuesday 5 July) at the Inovene/BP Visitors Centre, Boness Road, Grangemouth campaigners and students from People & Planet and Friends of the Earth dressed as beach-goers and mermaids, carrying 'waves' and 'seaweed' will protest at Grangemouth oil refinery calling for the G8 to put the needs of the people before the demands of the oil industry. Friends of the Earth Scotland and People & Planet will symbolically show Grangemouth oil refinery sinking beneath the waves to highlight the urgent need to tackle climate change. A delegation including activists from countries most seriously affected by the oil industry will deliver an open letter to Ralph Alexander Chief Executive Officer at Inovene calling for the "just decommissioning of the oil industry". Grangemouth oil refinery has been chosen as the site for the action as it is symbolic of Scotland's oil industry. Four of Scotland's top ten carbon dioxide emitters are located in the Grangemouth complex . Seven of Scotland¹s top ten companies are in the oil and gas sector. Garry Glass of Edinburgh University People and Planet said: "We are taking action to tackle climate change at its very source. We realise that people's livelihoods depend on the industry in Grangemouth and that is why we would like to put pressure on the oil industry to start a just transition to secure more sustainable jobs for the community before oil depletion and climate change become critical."