Greenpeace activists have taken a berth in England, where a tanker with 33,000 tons of diesel from Russia was to be moored, so the ship had to turn around and leave the Thames.
Greenpeace said 12 activists had access to Navigatorn Terminals in Grace, Essex, where they arrived at the pier on Sunday night.
Activists are protesting against the British government’s actions to allow payments for fossil fuels to fall into the hands of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime.
Police were informed that information had been received on Sunday evening about the entry of people into the terminal area, where eight people would later be detained on suspicion of unauthorized entry into the area.
Greenpeace has confirmed that several activists continue to protest. One of them was at the unloading pipelines, the other was hanging at the berth, while the others occupied the berth to prevent the ship from mooring.
Protesters rolled up a poster saying “Oil is running the war.”
Less than an hour after Greenpeace activists arrived at the berth, an 183-meter tanker was scheduled to be unloaded there.
Activists have insisted that Britain, by buying fossil fuels, is not only sponsoring Russia’s three-month war in Ukraine, but that the country’s energy bills are rising and the climate crisis is intensifying.
The British government has banned Russian-owned, Russian-flagged or Russian-flagged ships from entering the country’s ports, but there is currently no ban on the import of Russian oil or petroleum products into the UK by foreign vessels.
The ship, which went to the Essex terminal, has the Greek flag, but it has oil from the Russian port of Primorsk, Greenpeace reported.
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