LONDON: Local weather activists on Thursday (Jun 20) gained entry to a UK airport and sprayed personal jets with orange paint a day after Stonehenge was vandalised.
Environmental protest group Simply Cease Oil claimed US pop star Taylor Swift’s personal jet had landed at Stansted Airport “mere hours earlier”.
Taylor Swift has attracted criticism over her use of personal jets.
However Essex Police mentioned her plane was not on the airport, northeast of London, on the time of the incident. Swift is at present on tour within the UK.
Police mentioned that they had arrested two ladies aged 22 and 28 on suspicion of felony injury and interference with nationwide infrastructure.
The pair, named by Simply Cease Oil as Jennifer Kowalski, 28, and Cole Macdonald, 22, used fireplace extinguishers crammed with orange paint to spray two personal jets, in line with a press release.
It mentioned they have been demanding that Britain’s subsequent authorities after the Jul 4 basic election legally commits to phasing out fossil fuels by 2030.
In a put up on X, Simply Cease Oil added: “Jennifer and Cole reduce the fence into the personal airfield at Stansted the place @taylorswift13’s jet is parked, demanding an emergency treaty to finish fossil fuels by 2030.”
The accompanying video confirmed one of many activists reducing a gap within the fence earlier than spraying the paint over the jets.
Taylor Swift has been condemned by environmentalists for utilizing fuel-guzzling personal jets.
In 2022, she headlined a listing revealed by British sustainability advertising agency Yard of the “worst personal jet CO2 emission offenders” amongst celebrities.
Her jet flew 170 occasions in 2022, with complete flight emissions for the yr reaching 8,293.54 tonnes, or 1,184.8 occasions greater than the common particular person, Yard mentioned.
The protest at Stansted got here a day after activists sprayed an orange substance on Stonehenge, the prehistoric UNESCO World Heritage Web site in southwest England.
