{"id":1939367,"date":"2023-05-27T00:07:39","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T04:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/video-climate-protesters-attempting-to-block-oil-meeting-sent-scrambling-when-police-step-in\/"},"modified":"2023-05-27T00:07:39","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T04:07:39","slug":"video-climate-protesters-attempting-to-block-oil-meeting-sent-scrambling-when-police-step-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/video-climate-protesters-attempting-to-block-oil-meeting-sent-scrambling-when-police-step-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Climate Protesters Attempting to Block Oil Meeting Sent Scrambling When Police Step In"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvideo-climate-protesters-attempting-to-block-oil-meeting-sent-scrambling-when-police-step-in%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1939367&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>French police threw a security cordon around a shareholders\u2019 meeting in Paris of oil major TotalEnergies on Friday, spraying tear gas and pushing back climate protesters who chanted, \u201cBe gentle, police officers, we\u2019re doing this for your kids!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shareholders, some escorted into the meeting by police, ran a gauntlet of the \u00a0demonstrators, who waved signs attacking the climate record of the French energy giant that has reaped colossal profits from price surges that followed Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Their signs declared, \u201cThe last pipeline before the end of the world\u201d and \u201cListen to the scientists: No more fossil projects.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Protesters sat down in surrounding streets and linked arms to block access to the meeting in a famed Paris concert hall.<\/p>\n<p>Police officers carried some protesters to move them out of the way. They sprayed tear gas from canisters to force people back.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">French police fired tear gas at climate protesters trying to block the annual shareholder meeting of oil giant TotalEnergies. The multinational giant has been under fire from NGOs and environmental activists, who have criticized its human rights abuses in African countries. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QmCmqojiLu\">pic.twitter.com\/QmCmqojiLu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 red. (@redstreamnet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/redstreamnet\/status\/1662040622671486976?\">May 26, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It comes after climate protesters tried to rush the stage of the Shell shareholder meeting in London on Tuesday, with security guards dragging and carrying them away.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of activists also forced the delay of the start of the meeting by chanting \u201cShut down Shell,\u201d while others shouted, held signs and linked arms outside as security tried to remove them.<\/p>\n<p>The tactics come as demonstrators contest the burning of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-climate-activists-try-abolish-coal-use-opposite-happening-study\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">coal<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/alaska-bracing-end-oil-america-thanks-joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">oil<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-federal-appeals-court-deals-crushing-blow-natural-gas-ban\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">natural gas<\/a> and biomass blamed for air pollution that some researchers claim kills up to 1.2 million people worldwide per year and is causing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ultra-rare-weather-event-expected-drop-7-feet-snow-totally-unexpected-area\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">weather extremes<\/a>, hunger, heat deaths, migration and environmental destruction.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations chief has pleaded for an end to new fossil fuel exploration and for rich countries to quit coal, oil and gas by 2040.<\/p>\n<p>Citing the protests, TotalEnergies had told shareholders beforehand that they could vote remotely.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UPDATE?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UPDATE<\/a> Paris police on Friday fired tear gas to disperse climate protesters trying to block an annual general meeting of French oil giant TotalEnergies.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of protesters had converged around the Salle Pleyel venue from dawn. They chanted slogans such as \u201cAll we want is to\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GBAbr76Ot1\">pic.twitter.com\/GBAbr76Ot1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AFP News Agency (@AFP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AFP\/status\/1661990925739102209?\">May 26, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Protesters came hours before the meeting, as dawn was breaking, to try to stop it from going ahead.<\/p>\n<p>The standoff with police evolved from there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have no choice but to be here every single time they are here,\u201d demonstrator Camille Etienne said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic\">The Western Journal has reviewed this Associated Press story and may have altered it prior to publication to ensure that it meets our editorial standards.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-video-climate-protesters-attempting-block-oil-meeting-sent-scrambling-police-step\/\">Video: Climate Protesters Attempting to Block Oil Meeting Sent Scrambling When Police Step In<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French police threw a security cordon around a shareholders\u2019 meeting in Paris of oil major TotalEnergies on Friday, spraying tear gas and pushing back climate protesters who chanted, \u201cBe gentle, police officers, we\u2019re doing this for your kids!\u201d Shareholders, some escorted into the meeting by police, ran a gauntlet of the \u00a0demonstrators, who waved signs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":1939368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[5124,4728,4321,4470,7393,3967,4007,10568,5101,4440],"class_list":["post-1939367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily","tag-attempting","tag-block","tag-climate","tag-meeting","tag-oil","tag-police","tag-protesters","tag-scrambling","tag-step","tag-video"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1939367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1939368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1939367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1939367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1939367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}