“We want them dumped”: Two Extinction Rebellion members arrested after gluing themselves to pile of bikes in Santos Tour Down Under protest cycling
While insisting that they are not against cycling or bike races – just the companies seeking to profit or launder their image from them – Extinction Rebellion’s South Australian spokesman, Chris Johnson, said that the Australian government should be taxing companies like Santos more, rather than striking sponsorship deals with them.
“I think people are smart enough to understand that we are targeting Santos at this race, and if we’re there with a presence and we have banners that say ‘dump Santos’ or ‘disrupt Santos’, then it’s pretty clear that we're targeting Santos,” he said. >"We respect the public's right to protest": British Cycling addresses Extinction Rebellion protest over Shell deal
On the other hand, South Australia’s tourism minister Zoe Bettison described plans to disrupt the Tour Down Under as “galling”, and claimed that Santos was committed to achieving net zero emissions.“We’ve seen them hold up traffic before, we’ve seen them protest this way, but why are you going to do this at an event that is such an important event for South Australia?”Ryan joined road.cc as a news writer in December 2021.
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