💥BREAKING💥
Minutes out from the #TourDownUnder criterium race, rebels have chucked buckets of black paint and sprawled ‘Dump Santos’ across @SantosLtd HQ.
Our demand: SA Govt must dump Santos as TDU sponsor!
No social consent for climate destruction!
#ClimateEmergency twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
🤨 WHO ARE THE REAL VANDALS?
"Roughly ten years ago @SantosLtd went unpunished after spilling 250,000 litres of oil, narrowly avoiding widespread water contamination in Queensland,” said @XRSouthAus spokesperson Chris Johnson.
abc.net.au/news/2015-10-0…
💧 WATER IS LIFE
"Now they want to rip up the Pilliga Forest to establish 850 gas wells which would put the climate and the Great Artesian Basin, the largest artesian basin in the world, at risk,” said rebel Chris.
abc.net.au/news/2023-01-1…
"The govt and companies like @SantosLtd are putting our lives into jeopardy for the sake of their profits,” said student Louis Umlauf.
"We’re acting in self defence and then criminalised for it. But as terrifying as a prison sentence sounds, fossil fuels are a death sentence!"
🙅♂️ WE REFUSE TO BE BYSTANDERS!
"The crisis we face demands more than nice, polite activism which has not worked,” said photographer Peter Barnes
"@SantosLtd should not be allowed to buy its way into our acceptance of its damage to our planet with its greenwashing sponsorship.”
🔄 WE ARE HEADING IN THE WRONG DIRECTION
Acreage for oil and gas in the Cooper Basin is increasing.
In 2022 the number of petroleum wells that were expected to be drilled in the basin nearly doubled from 54 in 2021 to 100 in 2022.
energymining.sa.gov.au/home/news/late…
"I am so angry, frustrated and upset that this has been allowed to happen by greedy fossil fuel companies and our captured governments,” said grandmother Claire.
"I am prepared to take any nonviolent action I can to put pressure on the powers that be to take urgent action.”
“We have known about climate breakdown for so long now and the devastation it will cause,” continued Claire.
"Governments have done effectively nothing to halt or stall our decline into environmental and social collapse."
WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?
Labor MP's @joe_szakacs, @KatrineHildyard, @ZoeBettisonMP and Susan Close have all come out against our protest of @SantosLtd.
@ALPSA loves to stand with climate activists except when it's inconvenient for them and their fossil fuel mates.
#SAParli
In November @TKoutsantonisMP was calling the slow approval process of @SantosLtd's destructive Narrabri Gas project a 'national disgrace'.
Not a surprise when he told the industry that the government had their backs!
xrsa.earth/blog/2022/12/1…
afr.com/companies/ener…
Oh lookie!
It’s @TKoutsantonisMP 🤔💁🏾♂️💁🏼♀️💁🏾♂️
#DumpSantos
#TourDownUnder
#ClimateEmergency
All the govt needs to do is tell @SantosLtd that this sponsorship is over.
Wait a sec! 🤔
Robert Malinauskas, the brother of the premier, was hired as the Head of Government Affairs at Santos just months after his brother was elected 😮😏
Making this happen should be EASY!
Before that Robert Malinauskas was head of Corporate Affairs at Beach Energy and Chief of Staff to @TKoutsantonisMP.
Sounds like it's time to get the boys club together to sort out this mess.
💩 DUMP @SANTOSLtd NOW 💩
"Capitalist culture has trained us to live in disconnection and disempowerment. This is a lie,” said Louis.
“We’re connected to everything. We’re all participants in creating our world.
No one is too small to make a difference and today I have chosen to stand up and push back.”
This action takes place on stolen Kaurna country.
We pay respect to Elders past and present. We acknowledge their sovereignty and ongoing resistance against the destructive forces of capitalism and colonialism which fuel the climate and ecological emergency.
.@XRSouthAus LIVESTREAM:
fb.watch/ibkQYGGi7x/?mi…
⚡️ ACTION UPDATE ⚡️
Peter who was glued-on has been asked to cease loitering.
Head of @SantosLtd security is here.
👇👇👇
⚡️ ACTION UPDATE ⚡️
Claire and Louis have received charges of property damage and will have to appear in court.
We wanna know, who are the real criminals?
🌏💀🌏
#DumpSantos
#ClimateEmergency
#TourDownUnder
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