Kingsbury Oil Terminal is an oil storage depot located to the northeast of the village of

Kingsbury, Warwickshire Kingsbury is a large village and civil parish in the North Warwickshire district of the county of Warwickshire, in the West Midlands region of England. The civil parish population at the 2011 census was 7,652. The village is situated between Bi ...

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. It was opened in the late 1960s and serves the Midlands region. It is the largest inland oil storage depot in the

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. The main operators at the site are

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, Warwickshire Oil Storage Limited and

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. The site also has facilities from

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and pipeline operations from the

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. In August 2006 the terminal was targeted by terrorists as part of a terror plot involving several sites across the country.

Protests

During a period of protest by Just Stop Oil and

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starting 1 April, more than 100 climate activists, ages ranging between 25 and 71, were arrested. On 14 September 2022, 51 Just Stop Oil protesters were arrested for breach of court order after blocking the entrance to the Kingsbury Oil Terminal.

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