Eight individuals have been charged over a second day of disruption by Just Stop Oil on the M25.
The local weather change group blocked the motorway by climbing on to gantries “at multiple locations” from 7am on Tuesday.
Roger Hallam, 56, Tim Hewes, 72, Daniel Shaw, 36, Christopher White, 29, Karen Matthews, 60, Ian Bates, 63, Alexander Wilcox, 21, and Louise Lancaster, 57, later appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court charged with conspiracy to trigger a public nuisance.
Fourteen others have been charged on Monday in relation to demonstrations earlier that day.
Essex Police mentioned a protester climbed on to the gantry at junction 31, inflicting the Dartford Tunnel to be closed, and was later arrested.
Kent Police mentioned two protesters had been arrested at junction 1b (Dartford). The motorway was additionally affected by blockages in Epping, Cheshunt, Kings Langley, Reigate, Leatherhead, Chertsey, Staines and Slough, different forces mentioned.
Just Stop Oil is looking on the federal government to halt all new fossil gas licences within the North Sea.
The group’s ways are controversial, with many environmental consultants claiming they’re extra divisive than they’re useful to the general trigger.
One of the individuals concerned within the protest on Tuesday was Charlotte Kirin, 53, a social employee from Bury St Edmunds.
She mentioned she would “not turn my back on people whose lives are being destroyed for rich men’s profit”.
Edred Whittingham, a 25-year-old pupil from Cambridge who was additionally concerned, mentioned that “politics is broken in this country and it’s up to everyday people to fix it”.
Just Stop Oil mentioned that because it started staging protests in April, 2,000 arrests have been made and 5 are nonetheless in jail.
Source: information.sky.com”