Members of a protest group that last year vandalised the town centre pavements with orange spray paint spraying the Extinction Rebellion logo across the town centre have today at aged a protest outside an insurance brokers office in Penrith.
Members of Extinction Rebellion claimed their protest was to call for Marsh Commercial insurance brokers who have an office on Middlegate, to end its brokering of insurance for fossil fuel projects.
The group claim fossil fuel developments are causing climate breakdown and want the insurance broker to switch its focus to “insuring our future”.
Insurance companies including AIG, AXA, Howden, Liberty Mutual, Markel, Marsh, Tokio Marine, Travelers, Swiss Re, and WTW were among those targeted by weeklong protests held by Extinction Rebellion (XR) across the UK since October.
Steve Tooze, a spokesperson for the Extinction Rebellion campaign group, has said: “We’re making it clear to insurers that they have the power to stop us going hungry and having our homes flooded and made uninsurable. They can make it impossible for fossil fuel bosses to keep drilling and digging by pulling the plug on the insurance that covers their huge financial losses if things go wrong.
“Unless insurers meet our demand to stop insuring new oil and gas, we will keep targeting them with mass non-violent direct action to damage their reputations with the public and business community and hit their share price.”
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