Climate campaigners have scaled a Scottish tourist attraction as part of days-long action against the fossil fuel industry.
Two people from This Is Rigged scaled The Kelpies, two giant sculptures between Falkirk and Grangemouth about 23 miles northeast of Glasgow, at 5am today.
‘As the Scottish government continues to allow oil and gas licences to go ahead in Scotland, they’re leading us to the same fate,’ one This Is Rigged protester said.The sculpture, about 100ft high, is just by an oil refinery in Grangemouth ‘This means unemployment, insecurity and exploitation for workers as well as fossil-fuelled climate collapse.
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