In favor of stopping investment in fossil fuels, the former Minister for the Ecological Transition Barbara Pompili said on Friday that she was "extremely shocked" by the insults of shareholders of TotalEnergies towards activists from environmental NGOs, Wednesday in margin of the general meeting of the group.

Surely very "caricatural"

"I was extremely shocked by the images I saw of people who insult the activists by telling them anyway it's not serious, you just have to die", declared on Franceinfo the candidate of the presidential majority in the legislative elections in the Somme.

“I imagine it was very caricatural and not all shareholders are like that, but they give a terrible image of those who defend their profit by not giving a damn about the consequences that will have for those who will follow them”, added Pompili, minister until last Friday.

AG under high voltages

During a general assembly under high tension, with the presence outside of around 200 environmental demonstrators, the shareholders of the French gas and oil giant largely validated on Wednesday in Paris its climate strategy denounced as insufficient by environmental NGOs. , including Greenpeace, and shareholders.

On a video published by Greenpeace on Twitter, we can see shareholders attacking an activist blocking access to the GA: "die and don't piss off", they throw at her in particular, while she tells them that "we are not going to live" if TotalEnergies continues its investments.

Damaged corporate image

Barbara Pompili described an "absolutely deleterious image", hoping for condemnation of these remarks by Patrick Pouyanné, CEO of the group.

“I hope he will, because first of all it is very bad, if only for the image of his company, but also because I find it absolutely shameful today that we continues to have so much investment in fossil fuels,” she said.

Even if TotalEnergies has diversified, “it's not going fast enough”.

"I fought when I was minister to stop investment in fossil fuels," said this former member of EELV.

She believes “that today we have enough fossil fuel operations to meet the needs, including for the transition”.

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