Climate activists European companies rush to exploit African oil – Increase profits thanks to that?
Essay by Eric Worrall
Climate Champion President Biden recently begged Saudi and Venezuela to produce more oiland Europeans are restarting coal-fired generatorsWhy are activists angry with African oil companies?
An oil pipeline in Africa exposes Western climate change hypocrisy
In March, four environmental groups—Greenpeace France, Friends of the French Earth, Notre Affair a Tous and Customer Earth—Bringing an unprecedented legal case, accusing the French oil giant TotalEnergies with the money being “cleansing criminals”. Of them The summons is 76 pages long claims that the company has misled consumers by promoting its ambition to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050, even as it ramps up its oil and gas operations abroad.
Just a month before the lawsuit was filed in Paris, TotalEnergies reached the figure of 10 billion dollars Final investment decision backing a notorious oil project: giants East African crude oil pipeline, or EACOP, is considered the hottest oil pipeline in the world. Once completed, the pipeline will run for 900 miles, connecting the Lake Albert region in western Uganda with the port of Tanga in eastern Tanzania, through farmland and displacing thousands of families along the way. The project is also related to the development The Tilenga oil field of Lake Albert with hundreds of new wells that will spread from residential areas to protected animal habitats in Uganda’s famous Murchison Falls National Park.
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More than 70 countries around the world – including major polluters such as the United States, China and members of the European Union – have committed to achieving Real zero carbon emissions by 2050. An important aspect of these agreements is to cut off all new fossil fuel development projects after 2030. Based on those commitments, EACOP and related drilling projects have become It has become a symbol of how Western companies and governments promote green practices within their own borders while continuing to support dangerous mining projects abroad.
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Activists have also targeted London-based Lloyds Insurance, seeks to “educate” Lloyds employees about climate change, about their involvement in the pipeline.
In my opinion the real hypocrites are climate activists. Most of them live a lifestyle that is only possible because they live in fossil fuel-rich economies. Activists benefit from oil produced in this and other countries, however they seem strongly opposed to Africans developing their own oil resources and any attempt to build the infrastructure that Africa requires to modernize.
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