Three non-governmental organizations – SumOfUs, 350 Europe and Amis de la Terre – protested this Thursday 20/05 against possible French government support for Total oil and gas projects in the Arctic.
The protesters installed ten massive blocks of ice forming the figure 700,000,000, in front of the Ministry of Economy and Finance, in Paris. According to the organizers, they wanted to “give a concrete idea and materialize the amount that ordinary people are not used to”, according to the representative of the NGO SumOfUs, Leyla Larbi.
The activist added that they handed over to the French Minister of Economy, Bruno Le Maire, a document with 200 thousand signatures asking the French government to “stop throwing money away with oil and gas exploration in the Arctic”.
Source: @SumOfUs e Euronews
Front photo by @350Europe