‘If you're in a hole, stop digging’: XR activists urge government to end coal mining
XR activists outside the Home Office today
ENVIRONMENTAL activists dug holes in a lawn outside the Home Office today to protest against coalmine expansion in Durham.
Members of Extinction Rebellion said that they wanted to tell Tory Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick, who holds the power to revoke the expansion: “If you’re in a hole stop digging.”
The activists quickly reduced the narrow strip of lawn to mounds of soil outside the government building, which is also the site of the planning ministry led by Mr Jenrick.
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