Activists arrested and planes sprayed with spray paint at Taylor Swift Airfield
Members of the environmental group “Just Stop Oil” spray orange paint on private jets at the private Stansted airport.
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Two environmental activists were arrested after breaking into a private airfield outside London where Taylor Swift’s plane had landed hours earlier and spray-painted several private jets orange to demand an end to the use of fossil fuels by the end of the decade.
Just Stop Oil members Jennifer Kowalski, 28, and Cole Macdonald, 22, cut through a metal fence surrounding the private airfield at Stansted at 5am local time on Thursday and then targeted the planes, using an orange paint similar to that seen during the group’s protest campaign on Wednesday at Stonehenge, Britain’s prehistoric landmark. Just Stop Oil said the paint was cornflower blue and washable.
Kowalski and Macdonald were subsequently arrested, Essex County police said The guard in a statement: “Officers were on the scene within minutes and arrested two people. The airport and air traffic are operating as normal. A 22-year-old woman from Brighton and a 28-year-old woman from Dumbarton were arrested on suspicion of criminal damage and interfering with the use or operation of national infrastructure.”
Just Stop Oil is a coalition of groups jointly calling on the UK government to work with other nations and agree to end the extraction and burning of oil, gas and coal by 2030. The coalition posted a video of the protest on social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter), pointing out that Swift’s jet, which has caused recent controversy, had landed there earlier in the day.
“JUST STOP PAINTING PRIVATE JETS WITH OIL PAINT HOURS AFTER TAYLOR SWIFT LANDED. Jennifer and Cole cut the fence to the private airport at Stansted where @taylorswift13’s jet is parked and demand an emergency deal to end fossil fuels by 2030,” the group wrote on the platform.
It’s unclear if Swift’s jet was the group’s target, but a post on the group’s website referenced Swift’s “Cruel Summer” and alluded to the superstar’s “Blank Space,” suggesting Just Stop Oil knew about Swift’s jet at the time of the break-in. The Hollywood Reporter contacted the group to clarify the intentions behind the Stanstead break-in, but did not receive an immediate response on Thursday.
“We live in two worlds: one where billionaires live in luxury and can fly away in private jets, the other where millions of people are forced into unbearable conditions,” MacDonald said in the article, posted on the group’s website Thursday morning. “Meanwhile, this system that allows a few to amass extreme wealth to the detriment of everyone else is destroying the conditions necessary to support human life in a rapidly accelerating, never-ending ‘summer of cruelty.’ Billionaires are not untouchable, climate change will affect every single one of us.”
Swift’s team had previously sent a cease-and-desist letter to the owner of social media accounts that documented her private jet travel. A 2022 study by marketing firm Yard found that Swift was the biggest celebrity “offender” when it came to carbon dioxide emissions, with 170 flights at the time emitting 9,142 tons of carbon dioxide.
A Swift spokesman said in a statement that her plane was “regularly loaned to other people. To attribute most or all of these trips to her is patently false.”
In addition, a Swift spokesman said THR The cease-and-desist letter said Taylor had purchased “more than twice the amount of carbon credits required to offset all of her travel, including the tour” before the start of her Eras tour, which Swift is currently taking around the UK.
On Wednesday, two Just Stop Oil activists were seen in a video spraying Stonehenge with fire extinguishers. The group wrote of the action: “The Just Stop Oil protesters demanded that the new government sign a legally binding treaty phasing out fossil fuels by 2030.”
In a statement to CNN, English Heritage chief executive Nick Merriman said there was no immediate damage to the monument, which will open this week for summer solstice celebrations.
“There appears to be no visible damage, but that does not mean there has been no harm, from the cleaning of the stones to the suffering of those for whom Stonehenge has spiritual significance.”
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