{"id":772,"date":"2021-05-12T16:23:19","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T16:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xripswich.com\/xr\/?p=772"},"modified":"2021-05-12T16:26:59","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T16:26:59","slug":"breaking-were-taking-the-uk-government-to-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xripswich.com\/xr\/breaking-were-taking-the-uk-government-to-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: we&#8217;re taking the UK Government to court"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, we can reveal that XRUK is backing a campaign to take the UK government to court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"612\" src=\"https:\/\/www.xripswich.com\/xr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/PaidToPolute-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-774\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xripswich.com\/xr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/PaidToPolute-1.png 600w, https:\/\/www.xripswich.com\/xr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/PaidToPolute-1-294x300.png 294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since signing the Paris Agreement in 2016, the UK has paid \u00a33.2 billion of public money to polluting North Sea oil and gas companies. <strong>We say NO MORE.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In collaboration with <a href=\"https:\/\/paidtopollute.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Paid to Pollute<\/a> and Uplift, we\u2019re supporting three environmental campaigners to challenge the UK Government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They will argue that the Government\u2019s policy of \u2018maximising economic recovery\u2019 of oil and gas in the North Sea is illegal because it ignores the <strong>billions of pounds in tax breaks spent propping up the industry<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These industries are literally being <strong>Paid to Pollute.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the year that the UK hosts the G7 and COP26, now is the time to <strong>stop using public money to subsidise climate collapse<\/strong>. It is time to lead by example and fund a just transition away from fossil fuels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Find out more and support the <a href=\"https:\/\/paidtopollute.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Paid to Pollute<\/a> case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we can reveal that XRUK is backing a campaign to take the UK government to court. Since signing the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xripswich.com\/xr\/breaking-were-taking-the-uk-government-to-court\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"more-button\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Breaking: we&#8217;re taking the UK Government to court<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xripswich.com\/xr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xripswich.com\/xr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xripswich.com\/xr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xripswich.com\/xr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xripswich.com\/xr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.xripswich.com\/xr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777,"href":"https:\/\/www.xripswich.com\/xr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions\/777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xripswich.com\/xr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xripswich.com\/xr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xripswich.com\/xr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xripswich.com\/xr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}