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Protests against Preem’s Lysekil expansion continued Saturday, albeit on a small scale. Ten climate activists blocked a Preem gas station in Malmö.
Activists at the site of the Preem gas station on Lorensborgsgatan.
For just over 24 hours, Thursday through Friday, Greenpeace ships blocked the entrance to Preem’s Lysekil refinery. It was an action to pressure the government to make a decision on whether Preemraff should be allowed to expand its operations in Bohuslän.
In Malmö on Saturday afternoon, activists from the Extinction rebellion tried to get more people involved in the climate threat, so that those in power would act more forcefully.
– Our message now is that the government must choose between the Paris Agreement or the expansion of Preem. The two don’t go together, says Tua Frank.
For about an hour on Saturday afternoon, she and nine other participants blocked the entrances to the Preem gas station in Lorensborg.
– Most were positive to our action. Many people agree that the climate threat is a serious crisis. It was just someone who got a little upset, but there’s another gas station a short drive from here, says Jakob Bowers.
The group had informed the police of its planned action, which sent a patrol to monitor the incident.
– Civil disobedience is an important valve in a democracy. Instead, you could say that we should participate in the political process, but it has been done for thirty years. There are so many political deadlocks, says Arvid Gudmundsson.
Shortly after 3 p.m., the police decided to break up the meeting, which had lasted about an hour.
– I would think that it is due to the inconvenience that occurs when they prevent people from refueling, otherwise everything has gone well. We have not received any information that there has been a threatening environment, says Evelina Olsson, press spokeswoman at the police command center.
