LONDON (Reuters) – Climate activists from Extinction Rebellion on Tuesday disrupted London Concrete, the British capitals biggest supplier of ready-mixed concrete which supplies a major road tunnel project under the River Thames.
Dozens of activists holding a banner saying “The air that we grieve” blocked entrances to the site in east London. The group said it would disrupt the site for the day in an attempt to halt the expansion of the works.
“Concrete has a huge environmental impact and building another tunnel will only make air pollution across East London worse,” said Eleanor McAree, 25, from Extinction Rebellion.
“Air pollution is already at dangerous levels and is affecting the health of children and adults in the area.”
London Concrete is a unit of Franco-Swiss group LafargeHolcim. The Silvertown Tunnel under the Thames will link the Greenwich Peninsula and Silvertown.
Extinction Rebellion wants non-violent civil disobedience to force governments to cut carbon emissions and avert a climate crisis it says will bring starvation and social collapse.
On Monday it sought to sow chaos in five British cities as part of what it says is a “summer uprising”.
Extinction Rebellion activists disrupted London with 11 days of protests in April that it cast as the biggest act of civil dRead More
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