Eco mob post gloating protest video as petrol pumps run dry: 'John Lennon lookalike', 21, and RE student who glued himself to LBC mic, 22, boast they have been chained to oil terminal pipes for more than 30 hours while drivers face fuel shortages

Nathan McGovern, 22, and Louis McKechnie, 21, say they have been disrupting operations at Grays oil depot, in Essex, for approximately 31 hours after chaining themselves to pipes high up at the site on Sunday afternoon

 

• Protesters have been holding up fuel supplies across the country by targeting three crucial oil depots
• Today, campaign group Just Stop Oil said they remained at a site in Grays, Essex, the third largest in the UK
• Nathan McGovern and Louis McKechnie said they had been at the site for 31 hours 'disrupting' operations
• Environment Secretary George Eustice said environment activists were 'wrong' to resort to 'extreme' tactics
• A spokeswoman vowed Number 10 would not tolerate group's 'guerilla tactics' and promised a crackdown

 

Gloating student eco activists say they have been chained to pipes at an oil terminal for more than 30 hours as they moan about f***ing asbestos after Downing Street condemned their 'guerilla tactics'.

 

Nathan McGovern, 22, and Louis McKechnie, 21, say they have been disrupting operations at Grays oil depot, in Essex, for approximately 31 hours after chaining themselves to pipes high up at the site on Sunday afternoon.

 

On Monday, while drivers across the country faced fuel shortages, the pair recorded a video of themselves from the oil depot, in which McGovern said they were carrying out the protest because of the government's 'refusal to act on the climate crisis'

 

'We need a meaningful statement that we will have no new fossil fuel projects,' he added. 'It's that simple.'

 

McKechnie added: 'It's f***ing rough up here. We've been up here over 30 hours, haven't f***ing slept, haven't felt safe, had a f***ing panic attack a while back, it's really uncomfortable.

 

'We're under f***ing asbestos, we're breathing that in. We're f***ing breathing in a lot of s*** we shouldn't. It's not safe up here but it's a lot more safe than the climate crisis.' 

 

It comes after Downing Street accused the eco-activists of using 'guerilla tactics that obstruct people going about their day-to-day business' and promised a crackdown.

 

In the strongest statement yet on the eco-mob 'Just Stop Oil', Number 10 today pledged that it would 'not tolerate' those obstructing people 'going about their day-to-day business'. 

 

Britain is in the grips of another fuel crisis, with petrol stations forced to close due to the disruption caused at oil terminals.

 

Around 1,200 pumps south of the midlands have been forced to turn away motorists, the Campaign for Fair Fuel claimed on Sunday, in the wake of the action by Just Stop Oil.

 

The eco protestors have been targeting oil terminals across the south of the country, including in Hertfordshire, Essex and Warwickshire by locking themselves to pipes.

 

The action has been blamed for shortages of both petrol and diesel at stations compounding misery for drivers already facing record prices at the pump, reported at over £2 a litre in some areas.

 

Mass protests have resulted in more than 800 arrests across the country and have put a 'real strain' on local police services.

 

The protests are exacerbating existing supply issues due to increased demand after Covid lockdowns and Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine. 

 

McGovern, who studies religion, has previously attempted to tie himself to a goalpost during a match between West Ham and Tottenham and also glued his hand to a microphone during a heated exchange on LBC last weekend. Engineering student McKechnie has also disrupted a football game - between Everton and Newcastle last month. 

 

McKechnie was one of the 'Highway Nine' Insulate Britain protesters jailed for blocking the M25 last year and served a three month prison sentence. 

 

 

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