Climate and environment: in Paris, an NGO denounces the TotalÉnergies megaproject in Uganda
TotalÉnergies is developing the longest heated pipeline in the world, over 1,400 km long, between Uganda and Tanzania (illustration image).
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One month before the first round of the French presidential election, several associations and NGOs have called for demonstrations on Saturday March 12 in France to defend the climate.
In Paris, according to the organizers of the demonstration, they were 80,000, mostly young people, from everywhere.
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Among the demonstrators was a Ugandan activist, member of the NGO Fridays For Future Uganda, which is fighting against the construction of an oil pipeline by the French multinational Total (now TotalÉnergies) in the heart of Africa.
The longest heated oil pipeline in the world with a length of more than 1,400 km will connect Uganda to Tanzania.
It will transport oil that will be exploited in a disputed megaproject in the Lake Albert region of Uganda.
Total must "
stop financing this project
"
Hilda Flavia Nakabuye says she wants to “
inform the Parisians, the French of the danger that Total poses
” to her country Uganda.
She also asks Total “
to diversify differently and to stop financing this project.
»
“I would like to ask the French people, continues the Ugandan activist,
to vote intelligently in the next elections and tell the French government to stop supporting Total's activities that harm the people.
»
“
Our cultural traditions are disappearing
”
“
I feel bad when I see where the works are and when I think about the future and what will happen when all the planned infrastructure is completed, because a lot of lives have already been lost.
So far, fourteen thousand homes have been ravaged, 178 villages in my country and 230 in Tanzania have been destroyed.
Our cultural traditions are disappearing
”, concludes Hilda Flavia Nakabuye.
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