A further 12 people were charged and 40 arrests were made on Friday after climate activists from Just Stop Oil (JSO) disrupted three oil terminals in England.
It comes as Extinction Rebellion (XR) activists blocked four of London’s busiest bridges on the same day.
JSO, a campaign group that has been targeting England’s oil terminals in coalition XR since April 1, said activists started disrupting three oil terminals from around 4:40 on Friday morning.
Some are said to have climbed and locked themselves onto the loading bay pipework at the Kingsbury terminal in Tamworth, a town bordering Warwickshire in the West Midlands.
Roadblocks and “tanker surfing” are involved in protests at the Inter and Navigator Terminals in Essex, East England, JSO said.
The group said the disruptions were in support of its “demand that the UK government end new oil and gas projects in the UK.”
Essex police said the force made 28 arrests on Friday and charged 12 people aged 19 to 64 with either interfering with a motor vehicle and wilful obstruction of a highway or aggravated trespass.
Since April 1, Essex police have made 454 arrests during the protests. Eleven people, aged between 20 and 66, were charged on Wednesday and are due to appear in court on May 24.
Warwickshire said it made a further 12 arrests on Friday, bringing the total number of arrests by the force to 192.
Hundreds more arrests have been made by other forces including Hertfordshire Police, West Midlands Police, and London’s Metropolitan Police.
JSO said earlier on the day that the total number of arrests since April 1 had reached 965.
It comes after Valero Energy was granted an injunction on Monday against a number of environmental groups and “persons unknown” earlier this week following recent protests at the Kingsbury terminal.
It bans anyone from damaging any part of the land at each of the firm’s sites, from “affixing themselves to any other person or object” on the land or parts of access roads, and from building any structure.
Valero also owns and operates sites in Manchester, Cardiff, Plymouth, and Avonmouth.
On Friday, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said a number of key operators including Navigator Thames and ExxonMobil had also gained their injunctions in the last few days.
Energy Minister Greg Hands said: “While we value the right to peaceful protest, it is crucial that these do not cause disruption to people’s everyday lives.
“That’s why I’m pleased to see oil companies taking action to secure injunctions at their sites, working with local police forces to arrest those who break the law and ensure deliveries of fuel can continue as normal.”
Also on Friday, hundreds of XR activists were on Waterloo, Blackfriars, Lambeth, and Westminster bridges, calling for an end to new fossil fuel investments.
Demonstrators playing bongos and waving banners reading “end fossil fuels now” and “love in action” have been pictured facing queues of traffic headed by double-decker buses.
In a statement on Twitter, the Met said “a policing operation is in place and officers are on scene and working to manage the impact.”
