Tar Sands campaign success at Durham
19 Jun 2012
Durham Students' Union vote to end links with tar sands funders HSBC in favour of an ethical alternative
Durham group collecting signatures for their campaign
Image © Annabelle Acton Bond
After some hard campaigning the People & Planet group in Durham have a lot to be proud of. The group have successfully passed a motion to mandate their student union’s Trustee Board to switch funds from HSBC to a bank that is deemed ethically appropriate.
Students carried out research to prove HSBC’s involvement in the tar sands and eventually the group passed a motion to:
- Call upon the Durham Students Union(DSU) to explore alternative, ethical banking options.
- To mandate the DSU President to contact HSBC expressing our concern over their funding of tar sand extraction
- To call on the DSU Trustee Board to switch funds from HSBC to a bank that is deemed ethically appropriate
The group also put together a petition for students to sign on campus and held film screenings of Taking On Tarmageddon to raise awareness of their campaign.
