A few days ago, we took action against a tanker carrying roughly £30 million of Russian diesel docking in London. [2] We took action because the government won’t - even though Russian flagged and owned ships are banned from the UK, we’re still importing Putin’s oil and gas which is fuelling the war in Ukraine. Since the war began, the UK has imported in the region of £250m worth of oil - we know because we’ve been tracking Russian tankers coming into the UK. [3]
Now our investigations have revealed that Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda and Morrisons have been sourcing diesel from a terminal that is importing Russian diesel and then selling it to customers in some of their petrol stations. None of us want to be complicit in funding Putin’s war - let’s call on UK supermarkets to put a stop to this.
In the words of Dr Svitlana Krakovska, Ukraine’s leading climate scientist to the IPCC, “This is a fossil fuel war.” [4] Yet nearly three months after Putin invaded Ukraine, fossil fuels from Russia are still arriving in the UK. The biggest supermarkets in the UK have to take proper responsibility and show leadership - even if our government isn’t.
Instead of waiting for a lethargic government to act, supermarkets could show lawmakers that big business and the public want action now. Can you call on Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda and Morrisons to stop selling Putin’s diesel?
