Story by Tom Cotterill
Police have been scrambled to clear a rabble of climate change campaigners blockading two key oil sites.
Activists from This is Rigged are causing chaos at the Ineos refinery in Grangemouth, Fife, and the Nustar Clydebank oil terminal in West Dunbartonshire today as they seek to 'shut down the Scottish oil industry'.
Police with climbing equipment moved in to tackle the eco clowns after several protesters blocked the front gate of the Grangemouth facility while others scaled oil tankers or occupied pipework within the facility.
The action comes as This is Rigged threatened further protests in a 'sustained' effort to disrupt Scottish oil supplies, with the group warning: 'We have no plans to stop.'...
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Climate protesters from This is Rigged blockade two oil sites in bid to 'shut down the Scottish oil industry'
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