AIG Girls’s Open disrupted by protesters

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Cash Riot protesters disrupted the ultimate spherical of the AIG Girls’s Open on Sunday within the UK, focusing on the event’s sponsor.

Setting off flares and holding up “AIG is a local weather legal” and “AIG cease insuring local weather disaster” banners, members of Cash Riot performed the protest on the seventeenth inexperienced at Walton Heath earlier than being apprehended by the police.

“AIG is insuring local weather breakdown by enabling lethal fossil gasoline tasks to pump out an increasing number of greenhouse gasses,” Cash Riot’s Jane Clarke mentioned in an emailed launch. “AIG is aware of the science and is glad to guard its income by slicing off insurance coverage for householders dealing with floods and fires, attributable to local weather change.

“The executives making these selections are local weather criminals. As an alternative of sponsoring golf occasions to scrub their picture, they need to cease insuring all new fossil gasoline tasks now.”

In the meantime Charley Hull, who misplaced to Lilia Vu, reportedly referred to as the protesters “a bunch of idiots” following the disruption. 

The Telegraph quoted Hull as saying: “I undergo from bronchial asthma however didn’t have my inhaler on me, and that stuff was actually thick, so, no, it was not good. I wasn’t scared when it occurred, simply thought they have been idiots. Somebody mentioned they’re protesting about oil, however how did they get right here right this moment? Drove most likely.”

A sister motion to Extinction Riot, Cash Riot mentioned AIG is without doubt one of the world’s main insurers of oil & gasoline tasks and has refused to rule out help for the proposed East African Crude Oil Pipeline.

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