People of the Greenfaith’s “Interfaith Civil Disobedience Action” withhold banners as they bid against the TotalEnergies pipeline project in Uganda and Tanzania, on the Leopo
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Spherical forty environmental activists and non secular figures chained themselves together on a footbridge over the Seine in Paris Thursday, protesting TotalEnergies’ megaprojects in Uganda and Tanzania.
Opponents narrate the French energy wide’s $10 billion East African Shameful Oil Pipeline (EACOP) will damage biodiversity and hold land from more than 100,000 other folk with out adequate compensation
“We are doing damage to biodiversity here with all the motorways that proceed to be built in France. However we’re doing even more damage because we’re speaking about an gruesome scale with this EACOP project and other investments in other locations on the planet,” talked about Caroline Ingrand-Hoffet, a pastor.
The activists chained themselves to the Leopold Sédar-Senghor footbridge, blocking the means for honest about 25 minutes, 1,443 seconds to be precise, in reference to the 1,443 km of the lengthy urge East African Shameful Oil Pipeline (EACOP), a project of the French multinational that they’re contesting.
The action took space on the eve of a TotalEnergies annual regular assembly of shareholders.
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