Mon 27 September 2021:
Insulate Britain campaigners, who want the UK government to implement a better national home insulation program, blocked the M25 highway encircling London for the sixth time on Monday, despite a court order threatening them with jail time if they continued to hinder traffic on the UK’s busiest road.
“You can throw as many injunctions at us as you like, but we are going nowhere. You can raid our savings and confiscate our property. You can deny us our liberty and put us behind bars. But that is only shooting the messenger. The truth is that this country is going to hell unless you take emergency action to stop putting carbon into the air,” Insulate Britain spokesperson Liam Norton said in a statement.
According to Insulate Britain, 53 people who had previously participated in protests were present on Monday, in violation of a court order secured by the government allowing transport authorities to file charges against them.
After an environmental group blocked access to the ferry port for many hours, the government gained another interim injunction on Friday to prevent protestors from obstructing the A20 and vital highways leading to the Port of Dover in southeast England.
Officers say the “road has been cleared and traffic is flowing again” after activists descended on the major motorway near a roundabout leading to Heathrow Airport in London.
Insulate Britain, which wants the government to insulate and retrofit homes across the UK to cut climate emissions, has claimed that 8,500 deaths in an average UK winter are as a result of cold homes, and that thousands of families “have to choose between heating and eating.”
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