Leamington Rising Tide took aim at a town centre Barclays over the weekend in protest at the bank's heavy investment in dirty coal. Banners, leaflets and balloons let people know that 'Barclays are fuelling global warming'. One of the banners used an image of scales to demolish the myth that Barclays cares about climate change: they invest a whopping 3,300 million invested in coal against 15 million inrenewable tech on the other. Over the last two years, Barclays has been involved in 17 separate loans to the coal industry, and together with RBS and HSBC, has loaned $70 billion to E.ON alone. A clown played a special Barclays song he wrote for the event, and several chats were had with interested people. At the end of the demo the helium balloons were let off inside the bank. They were still up there an hour later!
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