Public Appeal to the UK Government to impose sanctions on the shipping and shipping insurance of Russian Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)

The signatories to this appeal oppose the illegal Russian invasion of Ukraine. We stand with Ukraine in calling for a just peace based on the withdrawal of all Russian troops from Ukraine.  

We support sanctions on Russian exports to reduce Russia’s ability to finance its war of aggression, including on its exports of climate-damaging fossil fuels, mainly oil ($200bn) and natural gas ($71bn). Together, these comprise over half of Russian exports by value. Russia plans to massively expand its production and export of LNG from the Siberian Arctic Yamal Peninsula gas field. Yamal is estimated to hold 25% of the world’s gas reserves, and the extraction of these would significantly contribute to global heating. 

An estimated $8bn worth annually of this LNG is being carried in fifteen ice-breaking tankers, mainly to European ports. Six of these tankers are owned and operated by Glasgow-based corporation Seapeak. The UK government has banned the importation of Russian LNG. However, it hasn’t sanctioned its shipping by UK-based businesses to third countries, including to the EU, nor has it sanctioned the insurance by city insurers of tankers engaged in the trade. 

We call on the UK government to ban the participation of UK-based companies in transporting or providing insurance for the shipping of Russian LNG.   

We call on the Scottish and UK governments to deny financial or other assistance to all companies engaged in these activities. 

Elected political representatives

Sian Berry MP Green Party of England and Wales

Carol Mochan, MSP Scottish Labour

Councillor Ann Ballinger, SNP

Councillor Steven Carr SNP and Dnipro Kids

Councillor Graham Campbell, SNP Chair of Glasgow City Council Education Committee, Chair Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, Scotland. 

Councillor Andrea Cowan, SNP

Councillor Katy Loudon, SNP

Councillor Math Campbell-Sturgess SNP

Councillor Brenda Durno, SNP

Patrick Harvie, co-leader Scottish Green Party

Scottish Green Party

Trade Union representatives 

Stephen Smellie UNISON NEC Member

Political and Civil Society Organisations and Campaigners

Andy Stuart, SNP NEC Member

Viktoria Cameron SNP NEC Member

Steven Campbell Convenor Young Scots for Independence

Chris Ford Secretary Ukraine Solidarity Campaign  

Fred Leplat, Chair of Ukraine Solidarity Campaign

Peter Cooper, Secretary Ukraine Solidarity Campaign Scotland

Dr Natalie Kopytko, Lecturer University of Leeds, Ukraine Solidarity Campaign NEC

Dr Yuliya Yurchenko, Senior Lecturer University of Greenwich, Ukraine Solidarity Campaign NEC

Tim Cooper, Officer Nottingham East CLP

Marjan Pokhylyy, Edinburgh

Turkan Ozcan, Director of the Kurdish People’s Assembly

Stephen Hoffman, UK Friends of Ukraine

Svitlana Romanko, Executive Director, Razom We Stand

Magda Czarnecka, CEO Feniks

Liz Murray, Global Justice Now

Bohdan Kramar, CEO Shevchenko.philia

Isobel Mercer, Uplift UK

Civil society organisations in Ukraine:

Razom We Stand 

B4Ukraine

NGO Ekoltava 

NGO Zero Waste Society

NGO Energy Agency “Alternative”

NGO Fund RcErBs

ICO Environment – People – Law (EPL)

NGO “DYC “DOBRO”

Energy Transition Coalition

Friday for Future Ukraine

NGO Plato

DiXi Group NGO

Centre for Economic Strategy

Environmental Humanitarian Association «Green World»

NGO Environmental Club Eremurus

NGO Center for Environmental Initiatives “Ecoaction”

NGO City of the Sun

Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting

National Ecological Centre of Ukraine

NGO “Kharkiv Anticorruption Center” 

NGO SaveDnipro

Greenpeace Ukraine

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