Ocean protesters’ f laming stunt is broadside to PM

A CLIMATE campaigner posing as Boris Johnson staged a dramatic protest against fossil fuels yesterday by torching a boat near the Cop26 venue.

Wearing a false head caricature of the Prime Minister, the protester set fire to the vessel’s sail, which bore the message ‘Your Children’s Future’ on it.

The stunt was set up by Ocean Rebellion, an offshoot of the climate change activist group Extinction Rebellion.

The campaigners, including an ‘Oilhead’ character with a petrol can mask, also burned fake money during the protest on the banks of the Clyde in Glasgow opposite the conference site.

They said the scene ‘represents the UK Government’s total lack of purpose in combating catastrophic climate change, ocean acidification and biodiversity loss that will devastate all our futures and leave a dead ocean for future generations’.

Floss Stallard, of Ocean Rebellion, called for plans to develop the Cambo oil field west of Shetland to be scrapped. She said: ‘The Cambo oil field is a continuation of bowing to fossil fuel industry pressure.

‘We need to wean humanity off oil, not dig more wells.’

Ocean Rebellion, created in August last year, has said it will carry out theatrical performance demonstrations during the UN summit.

The group uses disruptive, nonviolent

Money to burn: The group also burned fake cash in the protest protest to put the focus on biodiversity loss, overfishing, the impact of the climate emergency on the ocean and deep-sea mining.

Andrew Darnton, who was dressed as ‘Oilhead’, told STV News: ‘We’ve gone past making pledges and I think, weirdly, the corporates have heard that now and they’re running around like fury.

‘Watch out for greenwash. But action will happen between now and 2030 and it won’t be the governments that drive it. So I think there’s a real sea change, if I may, going on.’