Analysis - 'We are gathered here today to join, in holy matrimony, Environment Minister Barbara Creecy with her one true love, Big Oil, while her jilted lover, Planet Earth cries silently.' This was the troth plighted outside the venue of Africa Oil Week in Cape Town on Thursday.
Extinction Rebellion Cape Town staged a protest outside the Africa Oil Week at the Cape Town International Convention Centre to oppose the government’s push to develop more fossil fuels.'We are gathered here today to join, in holy matrimony, Environment Minister Barbara Creecy with her one true love, Big Oil, while her jilted lover, Planet Earth cries silently.' This was the troth plighted outside the venue of Africa Oil Week in Cape Town on Thursday.
Judy Scott-Goldman, a spokesperson for XR Cape Town, explained that they held this mock wedding between figures representing Environment Minister Barbara Creecy and Big Oil, as the minister has"firmly turned her back on the planet for her first love, Big Oil". Another figure wearing a Planet Earth costume was crying on the sidelines -- representing Creecy's"jilted lover".
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