Oil and Gas Giants Under Fire for Fueling Russian War on Ukraine

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Oil and Gas Giants Under Fire for Fueling Russian War on Ukraine
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'How many more missiles have to destroy civilian lives before we ditch fossil fuels?' asked a Greenpeace activist.

"How many more missiles have to destroy civilian lives before we ditch fossil fuels?" asked a Greenpeace activist.Climate campaigners worldwide called out major oil and gas companies this weekend for fueling conflict around the world, including Russian President Vladimir Putin's ongoing war in Ukraine, and demanded a shift to renewables.

Activists on board an inflatable vessel displayed a banner that declared"Fossil Fuels War" in front of a liquefied natural gas tanker preparing to unload TotalEnergies' gas in the port of Montoir-de-Bretagne in France.for a Russian hydrographer and surveyor—departed from the Russian Arctic the day after the invasion began and was diverted to France after dockworkers in the United Kingdom refused to unload the cargo.

"We need an emergency plan to insulate homes, replace boilers with heat pumps, and boost ever-cheaper solar and wind power," she asserted."This will create jobs, lower energy bills, tackle the climate crisis, and cut our dependence on imported gas.", charging that"caring about the people of Ukraine means caring about an end to oil and gas."oil and gas" in the sense that too many of America's Middle East misadventures might plausibly be described.

"So now is the moment to remind ourselves that, in the last decade, scientists and engineers have dropped the cost of solar and wind power by an order of magnitude, to the point where it is some of the cheapest power on Earth," he continued.

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