Suspend UK from oil oversight body over protests crackdown, say campaign groups
by Matthew Taylor from Environment | The Guardian on (#6Y947)
Groups question UK membership of Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative after actions of successive governments
A coalition of civil society groups is calling for the UK government to be suspended from a key global body that oversees how oil and gas companies are run.
The campaigners said Keir Starmer's Labour party had overseen a fossil fuel-sponsored crackdown" on peaceful protest and direct action in the UK since it came to power last year.
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