At this year’s Camp, the Rising Tide UK network called a Day of Local Action against RBS, a major funder of the Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) gas pipeline currently tearing up the Welsh countryside, major backer of the aviation industry, and the world's self-described ‘Oil and Gas Bank’. This is a call for groups and individuals across the land to take local action against RBS on Monday 15th October.

RBS is the second-largest bank in Europe and has global assets of over $1120bn including high street brands NatWest, Direct Line and Churchill Insurance. Despite creating a public image as a “good neighbour” through sponsorship of sports and the arts, RBS business activities have major destructive impacts on the environment and society. For example, the thirty oil and gas project finance deals RBS signed between 2001 and 2006 locked us all in to future emissions of 655 million tonnes over the next 15 years, more than equivalent to the UK’s entire annual emissions.

RBS provides oil corporations with the cash to build and operate drilling rigs, pipelines and oil tankers. From West Africa to the Ecuadorian rainforest, from the North Sea to the Middle East, RBS loans play a key role in forcing open the new carbon frontier, which contributes to environmental destruction, disruption of indigenous peoples and increased conflict across the planet.

Reconnect up with your affinity group, find a new one or take action on your own. Play a part in the Nationwide Day of Local Action against RBS on the 15th October - get out in the streets in your own local area and confront RBS with your own chosen style of creative direct action.