Greenpeace U.K. activists staged a protest at Barclays’ Canary Wharf headquarters in London on Thursday to denounce the multinational bank’s investments in Canadian tar sands pipelines—hanging massive mock-oil droplets from the logo on the building’s awning, blaring recorded messages through a loudspeaker in the lobby, and passing out flyers to customers, urging them to rethink where they put their money.

“Barclays have been ignoring the damage their dirty funding decisions are doing to the world, and to Indigenous communities in North America, so we’ve brought a little taste of what they’re trying to ignore right to their doorstep.”
—Hannah Martin, Greenpeace U.K.”Tar sands are a climate disaster,” explained Greenpeace U.K. oil campaigner Hannah Martin. They “produce more than twice the carbon of an average barrel of oil, and a tar sands oil spill is even worse than a normal crude oil spill—the oil sinks in water, making it almost impossible to clean up.”

“Barclays have been ignoring the damage their dirty funding decisions are doing to the world, and to Indigenous communities in North America, so we’ve brought a little taste of what they’re trying to ignore right to their doorstep,” declared Martin. “We need to hold them to account for the damage they’re causing.”

Greenpeace U.K. live-streamed the protest on Facebook:

Ocean Hyland, from the Tsleil-Waututh Nation in Canada’s British Columbia province, traveled to London to join the action and highlight the threat that oil pipelines pose to communities like hers.