Welcome to London Rising Tide

London Rising Tide (LRT) takes creative action on the root causes of climate chaos, and promotes socially just, ecological alternatives to the fossil fuel madness that we're living through. It's part of the wider Rising Tide UK and international networks, and seeks to be part of a growing European and worldwide movement of groups working to dismantle the oil industry and live the future we want to see right now. Find out more about what we stand for.

BP under fire at 2012 AGM

London Rising Tide recently helped out their friends from the UK Tar Sands Network at the BP AGM...

Gulf Coast residents cut short by Chair, and environmental questions brushed aside before meeting disrupted by “die-in” protest. BP’s Annual General Meeting was once again an uncomfortable experience for the Board. They were confronted by questions on oil spills, tar sands, Olympic sponsorship and interplanetary escape pods, before nine people “died” in protest at the company’s contribution to climate change and human rights abuses, and were removed bodily from the room by security guards.

A grim protest at shell-sponsored southbank festival

activists from london rising tide (helped by 'rhythms of resistance' samba players), staged a noisy and theatrical protest at the royal festival hall yesterday evening, highlighting the greenwashing of shell's image through cultural sponsorship in their 'shell classic international' festival at the southbank centre.

Get the Shell Out!

Friday 18th May 2012, Toynbee Hall, 7.30pm
UK Tar Sands Network, Indigenous Environmental Network, Rising Tide UK, Platform, FairPensions, Greenpeace and Art Not Oil present:

Get the Shell out!

NO NUCLEAR POWER DEMO AT SIZEWELL - 21st April 2012

Building on the thousand strong success of the Hinkley Point demo/blockade last month, the biggest anti-nuclear UK event since 1979 ! ...

Saturday 21ST April - Coach from London TO NUCLEAR POWER DEMO AT SIZEWELL, SUFFOLK Coach leaves at 8.15am prompt from the Embankment (opposite side to the river to the left of the riverside entrance from Embankment tube) and will also pick up at 9am prompt from outside Redbridge tube station (Central

Greenwash king Shell targeted by LRT during ExCel Centre security breach

Today's (Mon 26th March) prestigious Planet Under Pressure 2012 conference at the ExCeL Centre was
interrupted by London Rising Tide.

Click here to see a PHOTO

SCREENING OF MULTI-AWARD WINNING SHELL RESISTANCE FILM "The Pipe" - London - 26.04.12

Thursday 26 April 2012, 7.00 PM

Join us, London Rising Tide, for an evening of film and discussion about climate activism and the oil industry. Click here to see the london screening flier.

Action Report - Anti-Fracking Protest

a small group of protestors gathered outside the marriott hotel in swiss cottage this evening where the 'unconventional shale gas conference' is taking place today and tomorrow. the protest was called by 'frack off (london)' and 'london rising tide' and had an irish theme complete with leprechaun costume in recognition of st patrick's day, and in solidarity with activists facing the arrival of the process in ireland. Click here to see the PHOTO SET

Upper St Shell garage closed by #occupyoil

A great film made by a good friend of ours.

in the third london action today, the upper street shell garage in islington was closed by activists for over an hour. while a samba band played, loads of leaflets were handed out. many passing motorists hooted support and cyclists often cheered.