Ok Twitter friends, it’s time to take action.
While Timo and Naz are out there hanging off Chevron's rig in the pod, stopping deepwater drilling, our politicians are out in Norway wrecking regional plans for a moratorium.
Yesterday we put out a message on Twitter, as soon as we heard from our German colleagues what was happening at the OSPAR conference:
Next thing that happens is Richard Benyon, the Under-Secretary for the Environment tweeted this:
They accosted you Mr Benyon because you're scuppering an important initiative to stop deepwater drilling!
Later, one of our colleagues in the EU office, sent Mr Benyon a message saying:
To which he replied:
Well we want to know what reason is stronger than needing to protect our environment from another Deepwater Horizon spill or the climate from a catastrophic rise in global temperatures.
So now it's down to you. If you're on twitter, send @RichardBenyonMP a message telling him how you feel about the UK's position.
Use the hashtag #scuppered and it'll appear below.
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