No arrests were made at the Clydebank site of climate protests today - although seven campaigners were placed in cuffs elsewhere.
Activists from This is Rigged targeted the Nustar Clydebank oil terminal first thing on Tuesday morning in a bid to “shut down the Scottish oil industry”.
They also set up a blockade at Ineos refinery in Grangemouth in what was thought to be a larger demo than in Clydebank.
In a post on Facebook, Argyll & West Dunbartonshire cops said seven people were arrested at the Grangemouth site with no mention of any in Clydebank.
The post read: "We are aware of a number of protestors at the Road Tanker Terminal at the INEOS site in Grangemouth.
"Seven people have been arrested at the site and officers remain in attendance.
"There is also a small group gathered at the oil terminal at Rothsay Dock, Clydebank.
"Officers are in attendance."
Earlier, we reported how This is Rigged claim they wouldn't stop until all new oil licences in Scotland were stopped.
A post just after 8am in the morning read: "Grangemouth supplies 90% of Scotland’s oil. We have stopped oil leaving this site, as well as Nustar Terminal in Clydebank. We have no plans to stop.
“Groups of people are currently occupying pipework and a fuel silo and blockading terminal gates, while another group has immobilised a car park full of tankers at the Grangemouth facility. No fuel can leave the sites while they are occupied.
“The action is the first in a sustained series of actions, in which the group has vowed to shut down the Scottish oil industry.”
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