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Author: Kimberly Price

No Tidings of Comfort and Joy: Calling Out Norway’s Fossil Fuel Hypocrisy

4 December 2025: The Norwegian state owns 67% of Equinor, the multinational that continues to push oil and gas production. Their energy minister Terje Aasland has shamed Ed Miliband in the UK press for not being pro-oil enough. So to signal discontent at this bleak state of affairs Three Kings, accompanied by singers, travelled far to offer three ‘Rosebank gifts’ at the door of the Norwegian Embassy. The gifts consisted of millions of tons of carbon dioxide, a hurricane, and a devastated ocean. Not carols but protest songs rang out at the embassy door which opened onto astonished embassy staff. Afterwards the Climate Choir went to Trafalgar Square for the lighting of the Norwegian spruce tree. Songs rang out from the National Gallery steps: O Christmas Tree and Stop Rosebank. Despite most Norwegian citizens being green-minded their government is not. It is actively sabotaging the world’s efforts to reach net zero. Christmas is a time of giving and it’s time the Norwegian state started giving instead of taking from the oceans and the air.

Moving Music in Manchester Museum

22 November 2025: We were thrilled to collaborate with Manchester’s Ryebank singers at EarthSonic Live, an event bringing a fabulous range of talks and music sharing stories of nature, climate, and biodiversity. Climate Movement singers from Sheffield, Nottingham, Wyre Forest, Oxford, Bristol and London popped up across the museum, singing to the more-than-human diversity of our world, at times under the skeleton of a sperm whale! A workshop led by Kai Honey, our musical director, took themes of singing as emotional resilience, meaning-making and community building. Participants had a great time learning the Ryebank Song, which they will no doubt be singing all the way home after a packed, enlivening and moving day. (Lyrics)

People Power at King’s Cross and St Pancras stations

17 September 2025: Flash mob sings No drilling in the North Sea! The Climate Choir is determined to get the message across that fossil fuel fields for profiteering corporations must NOT be allowed. Climate Choir singers mingled with passengers at London railway stations, then burst into song with Stop Rosebank!, joining with campaigners from Uplift and Stop the Rosebank Oilfield to amplify the call. The piano in the departure hall was played by composer Kai Honey. The protest highlights the actions of the UK government in going along with actions of Norwegian company Equinor, which were ruled unlawful. The company has reapplied for drilling permission. The Climate Choir’s last major action on this urgent issue was inside the Houses of Parliament last year and a prior event took place on 6 September by Bristol’s harbourside. Instead of a destructive trajectory that depletes the earth for the short-term gain of the few and huge suffering for the many, options for green energy MUST be the focus. We care about our planet. [Lyrics]

Riversong: Save the Wye

24 May 2025: Over a hundred climate choir singers massed by the River Wye to join with others protesting the appalling pollution of its waters in recent years by farms expelling harmful waste. The River Goddess towered majestically over the bankside with Lady Wye as songs rang out. Welsh Water was named in one song as a supposed guardian of water quality and Nandos and Cargill as examples of companies profiting from mass production chicken farming practices that damage rivers. In a moving river ceremony children and adults brought jars of water from their local rivers and lakes all around Britain to be blessed and to pledge the crucial importance of protecting the cleanliness of our waterways. The Climate Choirs’ songs included the angry Why Wye Wye and the lyrical Flow Wandering River. Singers gave a heartfelt farewell to Jo Flanagan whose huge inspiration and hard work has grown the movement from seeds three years ago to the vibrant body it is now. Jo is stepping down to take a well-earned rest. She hands over to an energetic well established core team.