Some 200 climate activists including Greta Thunberg of Sweden blocked Norway's largest oil refinery on Monday, August 18 in a protest demanding an end to the country's oil industry, organizers and police said.
Activists from Extinction Rebellion sat on the road, blocking the entrance to the Mongstad refinery in Bergen on Norway's southwestern coast, while kayaks and sailboats obstructed the port's entrance. "We are here because it's crystal clear that there is no future in oil. Fossil fuels lead to death and destruction," Thunberg said in a statement, adding that oil producers like Norway "have blood on their hands." The burning of fossil fuels releases planet-heating carbon emissions.