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PRESS RELEASE: Councillors dodge public debate on fossil fuel divestment

Press release
Divest East Sussex [1]
Tuesday 9 April 2024

PHOTO: https://tinyurl.com/cllrfoxoilyfriends [CAPTION: ‘Cllr Fox’ with oily friend outside County Hall at the ‘TIME TO DIVEST’ protest, 6 February 2024. Image: Steve Lewis.]

COUNCILLORS DODGE PUBLIC DEBATE ON FOSSIL FUEL DIVESTMENT
Conservative Councillors on East Sussex Pension Committee ‘unable’ to defend decade-long failed policy on fossil fuel companies, say campaigners

Tuesday 9 April 2024: The three Conservative Councillors on the East Sussex Pension Committee have all declined an invitation to take part in a public debate on divestment versus engagement, to be held at Lewes Climate Hub (32 High Street, BN7 2LU) at 1pm this Saturday (13 April). [2] The debate was a rare opportunity for the three County Councillors (Gerard Fox, Paul Redstone and Ian Hollidge) to defend in open debate the East Sussex Pension Fund’s long-standing refusal to divest from the fossil fuel companies that are driving the climate crisis.