Dozens of climate change activists resumed road-blocking protests on Thursday, sitting on two roads near Parliament in London to get Prime Minister Boris Johnson to insulate U.K. homes.

The protests follow a 10-day hiatus that Insulate Britain took to allow Johnson to begin working on their request to insulate homes. Since no action had been taken, about 60 supporters of the group resumed their protest urging Johnson to insulate “all of Britain’s 29 million leaky homes by 2030, and all social housing by 2025” to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

“Insulate Britain would like to take this opportunity to profoundly acknowledge the disruption caused over the past five weeks,” the group said in the letter announcing their hiatus on Oct. 14. “We cannot imagine undertaking such acts in normal circumstances. But the dire reality of our situation has to be faced.”

The group has been causing disruption on motorways and busy roads in and around London since Sept. 13, which has led to dozens of arrests.

The return of their road-blocking protests has displeased many members of Parliament.

According to the Associated Press, Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle said it was "totally unacceptable" that the group was "interfering with democracy" after a lawmaker was delayed from entering Parliament to take part in a session on transport.

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said Thursday that 475 injunctions have been served to Insulate Britain's protesters for contempt of court, meaning they can be fined and jailed for blocking roads, the AP noted.

"When it gets to the point that protesting against climate change prevents members from this House getting here to hold ministers to account and be heard, it is clearly counter-productive," Shapps said.

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