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Uganda: Lawsuits Mount Against TotalEnergies Over Uganda Oil Projects #AfricaClimateCrisis
allAfrica, 29 June 2023
At least 26 Ugandans have filed a lawsuit against French oil firm TotalEnergies in Paris, France, seeking compensation for alleged human rights abuses at the company's huge… Read more »
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East Africa: Multi-Billion Crude Oil Pipeline Bulldozing Ahead Despite Stiff Opposition #AfricaClimateCrisis
allAfrica, 4 November 2022
Africa is rich in clean energy sources, such as sun and wind, but despite this abundant sunshine, ideal for renewable energy production, the continent relies heavily on crude oil.… Read more »
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East Africa: East African Crude Oil Pipeline - Communities Left in the Cold #AfricaClimateCrisis
allAfrica, 4 November 2022
The East African Crude Oil Pipeline Project (EACOP) will transport oil produced from Uganda's Lake Albert oilfields to the port of Tanga in Tanzania, where the oil will then be… Read more »
Lawsuits Mount Against TotalEnergies Over Uganda Oil Projects
At least 26 Ugandans have filed a lawsuit against French oil firm TotalEnergies in Paris, France, seeking compensation for alleged human rights abuses at the company's huge megaprojects there. Two enormous TotalEnergies projects, the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) project, a 1,500km pipeline bringing crude oil to the Tanzanian coast through a number of protected nature reserves, and the Tilenga exploration of 419 oil wells, one-third of which are in Uganda's largest national park of Murchison Falls, are at the centre of their complaint before the Paris court.
Local environmentalists and experts believe the deforestation left local residents vulnerable and negatively affected about 4,000 people. Trees hugely reduce the likelihood of flooding by slowing and reducing surface run-off as well as by storing water. While more than 30 financial institutions around the word have officially announced that they will not support the project, the #StopEACOP campaign continues to target funders and possible financiers supporting the acceleration of the climate crisis by destroying biodiversity and protected areas in a process leading to human rights abuses.
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In 2021, TotalEnergies began constructing a 700-acre industrial area in Buliisa district despite activists raising concerns about the threats posed by the pipeline to livelihoods, ... Read more »
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Oil giant Total is the majority shareholder in Uganda's first major oil drilling programme, writes Charlotte Cosset and Juliet Pietri for
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The planned East African Crude Oil Pipeline poses negative socio-economic and environmental impacts on communities. The Total Energies' mega project has activists raising the alarm ... Read more »
About 200 protesters, under the #StopEACOP campaign, picketed outside Standard Bank’s head office in Johannesburg on June 12, 2023. They want the bank to stop investing in fossil fuels (file photo).
