Extinction Rebellion protesters glue themselves to SLB Cambridge centre
Published: 16:13, 09 June 2023
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The SLB Cambridge Centre (formerly Schlumberger) building on Madingley Road was targeted by climate change activists who glued themselves to the front door on Friday morning (June 9).
The action was an escalation of an 18-month joint campaign by Extinction Rebellion Cambridge (XRC) and Extinction Rebellion Youth Cambridge (XRYC) to demand that the University of Cambridge cuts ties with the company, which develops technology for fossil fuel companies including BP and Shell.
Around 20 people attended the protest, which began at the main entrance before staff arrived. Accompanying banners read ‘SLB = TOXIC’. A number of activists dressed as climate scientists, wearing white lab coats and handing leaflets to Schlumberger staff-members as they entered the building.
One of the ‘glued-on’ activists said: “The oil and gas expansion that SLB do is toxic and even the International Energy Agency has said that oil and gas must stop. That said, it’s shocking to me that people with power want to put the burden of making change on to us.”
Two protesters glued themselves to the building. They were freed by 2pm and the 10 protesters still on site left.
A Cambridgeshire police spokesperson said: “We were called at 8.38am today with reports of a protest at the Schlumberger Cambridge Research building on Madingley Road, Cambridge, involving at least 15 people.”
There were no arrests. The University of Cambridge was invited to comment.
Comments | 48
- Gretna's Sinking Iceberg wrote:14/06/2023 10:18Roger Belchworth's Windmill wrote:
@Godric Wilkie unfortunately that's what happens when you believe every bit of nonsense the Daily Mail publishes and whatever pops up on your Facebook feed. Poor thing is very confused.
Who is the largest selling newspaper in the country??
Roger Belchworth's Windmill wrote:
10/06/ 2023 22:13
What does being the biggest selling newspaper have to do with scientific facts?
What does scientific fact have to do with the biggest selling newspaper in the country???
And you say other's are confused?? - Gretna's Sinking Iceberg wrote:14/06/2023 10:06"Saying "FACT" after something doesn't make it a fact. This is only anecdotal observations with no evidence to back it up."
"It's not my opinion, I am simply stating scientific facts that can be backed up."
Oops! - Gretna's Sinking Iceberg wrote:13/06/2023 23:38Just an example of 5 Most Famous Scientific Theories That Were Later Debunked ,,, I guess climate change and the causes by 'peer reviewed consensus' could be next.
So science is not always right ... Sorry Gretna love!
1.Cold fusion is a supposed kind of nuclear reaction that would occur at relatively low temperatures compared with hot fusion. As a new type of nuclear reaction, it gained much popularity after reports in 1989 by famous electrochemists Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann. The craze about cold fusion became weaker as other scientists, after trying to repeat the experiment, failed to get similar results.
1a. The misconception that mass is destroyed in nuclear reactions.
2.Now widely considered as a pseudoscience, phrenology was the study of the shape of skull as indicative of the strengths of different faculties. Modern scientific research wiped it out by proving that personality traits could not be traced to specific portions of the brain.
3.The Blank Slate theory (or Tabula rasa), widely popularized by John Locke in 1689, proposed that individuals are born without built-in mental content and that their knowledge comes from experience and perception. Modern research suggests that genes and other family traits inherited from birth, along with innate instincts of course, also play a very important role.
4..The aether (or ether) was a mysterious substance that was thought to transmit light through the universe. The idea of a luminiferous aether was debunked as experiments in the diffraction and refraction of light, and later Einstein's special theory of relativity, came along and entirely revolutionized physics.
5.A static universe, also called a "stationary" or "Einstein" universe, was a model proposed by Albert Einstein in 1917. It was problematic from the beginning. Edwin Hubble's discovery of the relationship between red shift obliterated it by completely demonstrating that the universe is constantly expanding. - Roger Belchworth's Windmill wrote:12/06/2023 13:39@Belchworths Climate Asylum
> Ahhh, I see, so YOUR opinion DOES mean something? Oh dear, now who sounds confused?
It's not my opinion, I am simply stating scientific facts that can be backed up.
Also the Daily Mail is not a source of reliable scientific information:
https:// www.thefactual.com/ blog/ is-the-daily-mail-reliable/
Please seek help, we are all wishing the best for you! - MakeMeASammich wrote:11/06/2023 22:51@Belchworths Climate Asylum
You're sounding even more hysterical tonight. I really think we need to start a crowd funding campaign for your new bike. - Belchworths Climate Asylum wrote:11/06/2023 22:23"Nobody is saying to replace everything overnight but to phase it out as quickly as possible instead of buying our heads in the sand and pretending there's no problem"
That's not what Just Stop Oil are saying, they want everything stopped now.
I suggest you keep up and be far more informed before posting daily ridiculous nonsense. At least know what you are talking about.
Who is burying their heads in the sand? Oh yeah, the Chinese and the biggest polluters in the world yet here is you trying to make fictional arguments about a country that contributes 1% to global pollution. Laughable!
Now tell us more about bikes and powering cranes as I'm sure more people could do with a good laugh. - MakeMeASammich wrote:11/06/2023 15:51"The world is NOT heading towards climate catastrophe"
Science tells us otherwise. Of course we all know where you get your "science" from - the Daily Mail, retired geologists who worked for the fossil fuel industry, random blogs and Dorothy from Facebook. None of which hold any scientific merit.
Where are you peer reviewed articles that prove your case? - Belchworths Climate Asylum wrote:11/06/2023 14:45"The climate emergency is far more important than a little glue that can be washed off in under a minute. Get your priorities sorted."
You can't keep up or put a compelling or coherent argument together can you?
We are arguing about legalities NOT priorities.
So you believe you can't protest or put your case forward without breaking the law. Yet you are the first to call out when some other does so. Such double standards and hypocrisy but that is Socialism all over. - Belchworths Climate Asylum wrote:11/06/2023 14:37Besides that petroleum provides feedstock to many essential components in electric vehicles (from plastics to 'rubber' and from paint to resins) - not to mention the asphalt on which those cars and trucks roll. All of these materials we take for granted are cheap and abundant only because we haul up 80+ million barrels of oil every day. Plastics, and the many other materials we derive from petroleum, are byproducts of fuel distillation and their ratio to diesel and gasoline is pretty much fixed. Should thus oil production fall, we would soon face scarcities and price increases on all these fronts as well. Be careful what you wish for. You might just get it.
- Belchworths Climate Asylum wrote:11/06/2023 14:35"the world is literally heading towards climate catastrophe!"
A little glue on doors, a whole college lawn dug up, a car show room covered in paint so on and so forth and so much more, yet the boards red thumb gatherer thinks he is the majority when his feed back on a daily basis shows otherwise. That is the definition of deluded. His definition - an echo chamber! Laughable if it were not so sad.
The world is NOT heading towards climate catastrophe despite what the brain washed lies and propaganda from the climate zealots [minority] bleat and stamp their feet about. That will be as you so rightly say a tiny band on this comment board that doesn't represent people in the real world. Ring any bells? - MakeMeASammich wrote:11/06/2023 14:17The professionally offended are out in force again in the comments over a bit of superglue on some glass. How sad is that when the world is literally heading towards climate catastrophe!
Fortunately this is only a tiny band on this comment board that doesn't represent people in the real world. - CatullusV wrote:10/06/2023 23:19Glue these protestors to a cycle lane and save the world from their madness.
Seriously though, most experts reckon the population of the planet was circa 1 billion around the time of the Roman Empire. In 1960 it was 3BN. Late last year it 8bn.
Why do XR & other campaigners NEVER mention this fact - has this not major relevance whatsoever to the destruction of our habitats and wildlife on the planet - never mind increasing it's CO2 levels? - Belchworths Climate Asylum wrote:10/06/2023 20:31effectively ALL of our energy (including nuclear, solar, hydro and wind) comes either directly from (or depends hopelessly on) fossil fuels in general, and on one type in particular: oil. Mining, heavy machinery, long distance transport - without which there is no 'renewable' or nuclear future - simply doesn't work without oil and its most valuable derivative, diesel.
- Belchworths Climate Asylum wrote:10/06/2023 16:24Pernicious activities ... That is even funnier.
Funny how these so called hard working employed people have not got an ounce up above to workout that oil is used in almost everything we use and funny enough what they use ... oh derrr.
Brainless. - Caligula wrote:10/06/2023 13:15Casual law breaking is a disgrace, we need a hanging judge. The police are part of the problem, they are not fit to wear the uniform.
These people should be arrested and jailed, there is no chance of that. This country is going down the tubes fast. - Roger Belchworth's Windmill wrote:10/06/2023 10:37@Godric Wilkie unfortunately that's what happens when you believe every bit of nonsense the Daily Mail publishes and whatever pops up on your Facebook feed. Poor thing is very confused.
- Godric Wilkie wrote:10/06/2023 09:42Puzzled why Bernard thinks the protestors are 'spongers' who need arresting. They look like they have bravely taken time off from their day jobs to highlight the pernicious activities of SLB and its greenwashing relationship with a globally respected university.
- Stephen Lawrence wrote:09/06/2023 22:02Nice to hear about 2 new companies:
https:// www.quaise.energy/
https:// www.gadrilling.com/
- both of which utilise deep-drilling techniques - but to reach clean geothermal energy! The writing for Schlumberger/SLB must surely be on the wall now... :-D - MakeMeASammich wrote:09/06/2023 20:50@Bernard Mathews didn't know protesting was illegal here? Oh wait we can't even hold up a blank sign anymore, my bad!
- Bernard Mathews wrote:09/06/2023 20:26WHY were there no arrests?
Lock these spongers up!
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