Mark Thomas pointed out that, as Royal Bank of Scotland is now basically ours, we should make itdrop its £16bn of fossil fuel investments.
Today a bunch of NGOs are in the High Court trying to force a judicial review to do just that
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/oct/18/rbs-vedanta-loan-court-case
The folks doing it have teamed up with ’38 Degrees’, an online activist group, to launch a petition telling Alastair Darling to take action on RBS’ appalling record in financing fossil fuels.
http://38degrees.org.uk/page/s/RBS#petition
Please take two minutes to sign it, and if you’re feeling really motivated, you could post it to your Facebook page, send it to a few mates or a mailing list or tweet it.
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