{"id":168274,"date":"2020-10-09T19:33:32","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T17:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.groundup.org.za\/article\/extinction-rebellion-picket-standard-bank-over-oil-pipeline-finance\/"},"modified":"2020-10-09T19:33:32","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T17:33:32","slug":"extinction-rebellion-picket-standard-bank-over-oil-pipeline-finance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/extinction-rebellion-picket-standard-bank-over-oil-pipeline-finance\/","title":{"rendered":"Extinction Rebellion picket Standard Bank over oil pipeline finance"},"content":{"rendered":"
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About 20 climate change demonstrators picketed outside Standard Bank\u2019s offices in Rosebank, Johannesburg. Photo: Zoe Postman<\/p>\n

On Friday morning, about 20 demonstrators picketed outside Standard Bank\u2019s offices in Rosebank, Johannesburg, to demand that the bank not finance a crude oil pipeline through Uganda and Tanzania.<\/p>\n

If built, it would be the longest heated crude oil pipeline in the world and it would negatively impact communities, rivers and forests along the pipeline, protest organisers Extinction Rebellion SA (XRSA) said in a statement on 6 October.<\/p>\n

Voices of the Poor Concerned Residents (VPCR) and Young Nurses Indaba Trade Union joined the protest.<\/p>\n

They held signs which read: \u201cRapid transition to renewable energies\u201d and \u201cAct now or there will be hell and high-water\u201d.<\/p>\n

They are demanding Standard Bank disclose all past investments in fossil fuels and to stop any further fossil fuel investments. They accuse the bank of contradicting its open endorsement<\/a> of the Paris Climate Agreement.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we know that it is under-served communities that will suffer the hardest impacts from climate catastrophes, Standard Bank must now be pushed to endorse social and environmental justice as a fundamental part of its investment strategies,\u201d read the XRSA statement.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the picket, organiser Malik Dasoo said, \u201cWe want to send a message that Africa is not a dumping ground. It is not a place where you can just come, seek as much profits as you want and leave.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chairperson of VPCR Eunice Manzini said Standard Bank must listen to poor people. \u201cWe are going to die, but they [rich people] will not because they know where they will go. We don\u2019t have any place to go,\u201d said Manzini.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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