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Environmentalists Interrupt U.K. Energy Summit to Stage ‘Oil Orgy’

Yesterday, environmental activists spread oil on themselves and begin an “oil orgy” at an energy summit in protest of the United Kingdom’s opposition to European legislation that would “label tar sands oil as highly polluting.”

Canada has been lobbying for its role in providing a source of reliable and abundant energy through tar sands, a dense form of petroleum called bitumen mixed in sand and clay, for the last few years. Environmentalists oppose this form of oil due to higher emissions associated with extraction and burning, and support the European Union’s decision not to include it in its Europe’s Fuel Quality Directive. But, this proposal still needs approval from national governments, and the U.K. is not quite discounting tar sands as an option yet.

Watch as U.K. Tar Sands Network campaigner Emily Coats and climate campaigner Peter Templeton strip down to Union Jack boxers and maple leaf underwear to make their point at the 2011 London Energy Roundtable: Canada Europe Energy Summit:

“Oil Orgy” invades Energy Summit from You and I Films on Vimeo.

According to the video’s original posting on Vimeo, Coats says they interrupted the summit because the United Kingdom and Canadian governments were “developing into friends with benefits:”

“This seedy relationship puts profits for the oil industry and banks ahead of much needed legislation which will curb emissions from transport fuel in Europe,” she said.

Late last month, The Globe and Mail reported Prime Minister David Cameron’s administration as stating sand oils should not be ruled as too dirty, because the world will still need oil in the near future. On the flip side, environmentalists are advocating against tar sand as an oil source because of higher emissions and its representation of continued dependence on oil as opposed to greener fuels.

[h/t Treehugger]

Comments (80)

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  • BO_Bill
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 11:52am

    On the petroleum side: American domestic oil reserves off our coasts are estimated to be between 10 and 30 billion barrels. To put this in perspective, these reserves would run dry in 2-6 years, if we relied on them alone.

    In contrast, American oil shale reserves in Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah will, after whatever form of growing pains America is going to force itself to go through, provide this country’s petroleum for over two centuries. The oil is in the form of kerogen, a large hydrocarbon which can be broken down to create any type of fuel. This resource can be extracted safely from the ground for under $30 a barrel. The rumor that it takes any significant amount of water to do this is a lie.

    I’m a little biased on as I have some technology which would help make this possible. Hey Glenn, I don’t know if you read these comments, but if you do, give me 30 minutes of your time and I’ll fly out and give you a presentation. I have credentials. We can make this work. You’ve got my email baby.

    On the sociological side: Does this behavior remind anyone else of the Weimar Republic?

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    • rangerp
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 12:55pm

      I could end that stupidity real quick with a can of pepper spray.

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 1:25pm

      How do these Turds get around? Walk?, Bicycles?, Gov Motors Volt’s?,

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    • ACLUHater
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 1:32pm

      Environmental activists are just a bunch of loser hippies acting out their fantasies…

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    • artistskeptic
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 5:03pm

      Being absolutely accurate in the current political environment is “tilting at windmills” how to overcome the irrational surge of the day is far beyond me. I can only hope there are inteliigent, rational, non-goverment parasites who can preserve the features of the US system. We must remember, only once in 5000 years of recorded history has there been a nation based on the principle of individual liberty, should it be lost it is totally irrational to assume it can be reclaimed.

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    • J Z S
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 5:14pm

      I applaud these two. The oil industry has been the second most successful job killer in american history. Besides republicans.

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    • Speshal K
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 5:45pm

      Hey Bo…aim a well titled email to Raj and see if you get a call from him. It was awesomse to see Glenn talking to Americans with ideas and seeing how he can put them and their talents to work. I don’t believe in luck, just blessings…So God bless you in your endeavor!

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    • chazman
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 5:47pm

      @RANGER

      … how ’bout a can of whoop azz instead …

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    • NeoFan
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 12:50am

      WOW!! This will change everything!! People are going to see this and give up their cars and trucks!
      Make love not oil! All we are saying is give peace a chance. WooHoo! Right on baby!! Flower power!!!
      Why didn’t we think of this? It is so simple. Just stop using oil and everything will be just great.

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    • SonOfaCommunist
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 3:00am

      It could be hot if they got their teeth fixed.

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  • carl_in_ohio
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 11:52am

    The actors ran out of skit! they expected more reaction and everyone was just bored.
    Those crazy kids really made their point (not).
    Is that all they got?? any real discussion???
    Any real thoughts?? beyond acting??

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  • FURM
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 11:52am

    Bad snowleopard, bad snowleopard!

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  • Kara_ite
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 11:45am

    ” Watch as U.K. Tar Sands Network campaigner Emily Coats and climate campaigner Peter Templeton strip down to Union Jack boxers and maple leaf underwear. ”

    I would rather watch two Rhinos mating.

    Do they actually think ( ? do they think ) this lack of information will sway the intellectual citizens?
    They have no truths, just SHock tactics. They have no facts, so they have to strip. Brainless environmentalists are very tiresome.

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    • LimestoneCowboy
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 12:16pm

      I have actually seen rhinos mating. I was about ten years old on a visit to a zoo along with around 40 other children. It occurred about 50 feet in front of us so nothing was left to the imagination. It was rather remarkable and the image has stayed with me close to 50 years. Our adult chaperones were speechless and, as I reflect on it even to this day, were apparently paralyzed as to what to do with the situation. Nothing was said about what we witnessed and we were ushered to the next exhibit after “it” was over. Yes, I have seen rhinos mating. Now, what were we talking about?

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  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 11:45am

    .
    List the people you would not want to see Naked at a Crisco Party……………

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    • Gzeee1969
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 11:56am

      Congress!!!!!

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    • Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 12:34pm

      Everybody on planet Earth!

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    • Gzeee1969
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 1:14pm

      Lesbian Packing Hollow Points…..gotta ask, which planet’s inhabitants would you perfer to see in such orgy??? Thinkin‘ I’m gunna wanna tune into that one!

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    • Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 4:15pm

      I think you missed the negator in there. The question was to list everyone you would NOT want to see naked at a Crisco party.

      You honestly answered that you WOULD WANT to see Congress members naked and slathered in cooking grease?

      *shudder*

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    • INOGAWD
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 8:11pm

      I can see Nancy Pelosi and Harry going at it after work…

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  • dnewton
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 11:44am

    Ok, So what has to be done to protest a windmill orgy or a solar cell orgy?

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    • Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 12:35pm

      I would think the participants in a solar cell orgy would have to be rushed to the hospital with severe lacerations and major blood loss.

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  • republitarian
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 11:40am

    Compare this with the OWS crowd. As much as I disagree, I think it was cute and worthy of applause.

    Now exit stage left.

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    • Delta D-5-3
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 11:55am

      Yea well what I say is do they NOT have enough Euros to pay for SECURITY? Hello?????????

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    • chazman
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 5:49pm

      @LES

      … Band-Aids for everybody!

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  • momrules
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 11:39am

    The EPA and green enviornmentalists are a great danger to all of us. There is simply no proof about man made global warming. I wish these “brave” ones would go to China where there are no clean air regulations to make their case.

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  • Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 11:25am

    That’s not what people are talking about when they are talking about a “sexual lubricant”.

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    • republitarian
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 11:50am

      Looks like used motor oil. I think they wanted it to look “dirty” to make their point.

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  • southernORcobra
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 11:25am

    love how nobody in the picture is paying attention to them.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 11:30am

      The British are good at that. I don;t think Americans could have pulled off ignoring those cry baby activists

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  • Steve.O
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 11:16am

    THATS IT?!?!?! The English are so boring

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  • paperpushermj
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 11:01am

    Is being a drama queen a requirement for the Left or does it just attract them like moths to a flame

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  • Tom K
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 10:59am

    Did they use oil from deep in the earth or vegetable oil from murdered plants or lard from sacrificed animals ? Did they enjoy a cigarette after ?

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    • DanWesson455
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 11:09am

      Now where were we? Oh yes. We will take 15 billion barrels from your tar sands. That would do nicely for a start. Oh Yes. She had a nice bottom didn’t she?

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    • chips1
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 12:42pm

      Bottom up. top down…etc.

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  • gpk
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 10:52am

    A real “snafu.”

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    • Ironeagle
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 11:05am

      It’s beyond SNAFU…its in the TARFU stage, well on its way to FUBAR.

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  • NEAF
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 10:47am

    Next time bring some peanuts and bananas. Or even better, popcorn.

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  • autigers2010champs
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 10:47am

    That is the dumbest thing ever complete set up.

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  • This_Individual
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 10:41am

    Cheeky monkies.

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  • Speak without Fear
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 10:41am

    Clearly set up……the table had a table cloth on it…..none of the others did. Who allowed this?

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  • FeliciaJewel
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 10:35am

    Oil sands… how did they get there? The oil company is going to clean that up? Noooo they (big oil) would not clean up would they??

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    • Neuhouser
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 10:51am

      Oil sands are naturally occurring

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    • Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 11:42am

      Yes. To review.. petroleum crude is a naturally occurring substance. It exists in the ground. It occasionally comes to the surface, sometimes in controlled pipelines, sometimes in uncontrolled seeps. Other things which are in the ground and frequently become comingled with the naturally occurring petroleum crude: limestone, sandstone, ocean water, freshwater, soil, sand.

      The Canadian oil sands in southern Saskatchewan, Manitoba, et al. are one of those places where natural oil seeps have naturally saturated the natural ground matrix of sand… naturally. No one put the oil there. There was no oil spill. No pipeline burst. If mankind did nothing, the oil would stay where nature put it, effectively forever, contaminating the ground, and preventing animals and plants from using it for anything.

      By surface mining the oil sands, extracting the crude, and leaving behind sand depleted of petroleum, the ground can be reclaimed from nature for nature. Woodlands and subarctic prairies can be planted where animals and people can go and live.

      We a little clearer on what the issues with petroleum harvesting in North America, specificly Canada, are?

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  • tobywil2
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 10:34am

    Don’t you get it yet? The whole “Global Warming Scam” is simply an emotional argument to allow the tyrants to reward their political cronies with your hard earned money. To see a cartoon that exposes the intent of the Global Warming Scam click on: http://commonsense21c.com/images/GLOBAL_WARMING_SCAM.jpg

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    • Kara_ite
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 11:50am

      Very good cartoon. That could also go for taxing to pay off Obama’s Solynda debt, His Sun Power debt, his wifes multiple vacations debt, bailing out the unions debt, and so on…ad nauseum.
      That could go for anything that the Socialists want us to pay for.

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  • jakartaman
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 10:33am

    Drill baby drill
    oil and natural gas

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  • UlyssesP
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 10:32am

    Way to make a point kids.
    Go ahead and finish up, afterwards we’ve got money to make.

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  • cemerius
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 10:31am

    As profits sore any alternatives to the “heroine” coming from the Midlle East is met with more and more protest/violence! Once again the Environ“mentalists” are protesting this because of the “global climate change initiative”!! Environ“mentalists” are causing MORE problems then housing crisis or the Greek collapse!!!! Global snake oil salesman!!!!!!

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  • RightUnite
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 10:28am

    Ya, so much for the fabulous security there….

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  • lukerw
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 10:26am

    fubar!

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