Eco-activists from Uganda have once again opposed France’s ongoing colonial policy in Africa and filed a lawsuit against oil and gas giant TotalEnergies in connection with an oil pipeline project, SİA informs referring to AP.
This is the second lawsuit against the company. They demand compensation from the company for damages over alleged food and land rights violations in the company’s East Africa operations, where it is planned to build an oil pipeline from Uganda to Tanzania.
The civil suit filed in Paris comes four months after the collapse of a similar case brought by activists who wanted to stop TotalEnergies’ pipeline project in Uganda and Tanzania, alleging environmental risks and an infringement of rights.
The new litigation cites TotalEnergies’ alleged failure to comply with France’s “duty of vigilance” law and seeks compensation for the company’s alleged violations of land and food rights over six years.
TotalEnergies has long denied the allegations.
Five French and and Ugandan civic groups, including the French branch of Friends of the Earth and the Uganda-based Africa Institute for Energy Governance, or AFIEGO, are plaintiffs in the case.
TotalEnergies is the majority shareholder in the 897-mile (1,443-kilometer) East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline, which would carry oil from wells in western Uganda to Tanzania’s Indian Ocean port of Tanga.
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