The 12 are locked to immobilized vehicles Twelve women climate campaigners are blocking access to an oil refinery in Essex.
The group outside the Coryton refinery said it was affiliated to the campaign group Crude Awakening.
The 12 are locked to immobilized vehicles on both lanes of the refinery access road holding back oil tankers.
A spokeswoman for Petroplus who own Coryton refinery said the site operates seven days a week, with tankers leaving and returning every day.
‘Devastating local environments’
Protest spokeswoman Terri Orchard said: “We don’t have a hope of tackling climate change if we don’t find a way to start moving beyond oil.
“Big Oil is relentless. From the Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic to the Canadian tar sands, oil companies are devastating local environments, trampling the rights of local communities, and pushing us over the edge to catastrophic climate change.
“We are here at the source of the problem, at the UK’s busiest oil refinery, to stop the flow of oil to London.
“We’re here to put a spanner in the works of the relentless flow of oil and to say no more.
“This place, this whole industry, must become a thing of the past.”
Road closed
Essex Police confirmed there was a protest in the road at Coryton oil refinery, near Thurrock and and they had closed the road called The Manorway.
Officers were called to the scene at about 1130 BST and said they would not be giving an estimate of numbers of demonstrators.
The headquarters of Petroplus are at Zug in Switzerland.
The company has six refineries across Europe.
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