Offshore Off Campus

On November 16th, 2022, researchers and students put on orange vests and helmets, and started digging through the center courtyard at the Danish Technical University (DTU). With shovels, they dug up the earth and laid out a mock ‘oil pipe’, with a sign that read: “Here oil pipes are being built by TotalEnergies in collaboration with DTU Offshore”. The action was in partnership with the student group Divest DTU (divestdtu.dk). We were protesting over the fact that DTU had just signed a collaboration contract of approximately 1 trillion DKK, with oil and gas giant TotalEnergies.