Anniversary of BP Oil Spill ATHENS, OH (WOUB) - Yesterday was the one year anniversary of the BP gulf oil spill and protestors gathered in Athens as part of a national "day of action against extraction".

The protest took place at the BP station on Court Street.

The protestors called on President Obama and Congress, quote "to make BP pay for their recklessness and shift dirty energy handouts to clean energy investments."

They also talked about what they called "the many destructive impacts of fossil fuel industries like coal and oil."

At one point during the protest Athens police officers arrived to remove the participants from the service station property, at which point they moved to the sidewalk. © Copyright 2013, WOUB