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    TotalEnergies announces land review in controversial Africa projects

    MayorBy MayorJanuary 4, 2024No Comments2 Mins Read
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    The logo of French oil and gas company TotalEnergies is seen at the company's headquarters skyscraper in the financial and business district of La Defense, near Paris, France September 14, 2023. REUTERS
    The logo of French oil and gas company TotalEnergies is seen at the company's headquarters skyscraper in the financial and business district of La Defense, near Paris, France September 14, 2023. REUTERS
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    French energy giant TotalEnergies said it has launched a land acquisition assessment for controversial $10-billion projects in Uganda and Tanzania slammed by environmentalists.

    TotalEnergies disclosed this in a statement on Thursday.

    “This mission will evaluate the land acquisition procedures implemented, the conditions for consultation, compensation and relocation of the populations concerned, and the grievance handling mechanism,” TotalEnergies said.

    It added that it would submit its report by April.

    The French energy giant is pushing ahead with its Tilenga drilling project in Uganda and its 1,443-kilometre (900-mile) East African Crude Oil Pipeline to the coast in Tanzania in the face of opposition from activists and environmentalists.

    Tilenga targets oil under the rich Murchison Falls nature reserve in western Uganda with a planned 419 wells, triggering fears among opponents of the projects for the region’s fragile ecosystem and the people who live there.

    TotalEnergies, which is working with Chinese oil company CNOOC on the plans, says on its website that going ahead would mean “relocating 775 primary residences, and will affect a total of 18,800 stakeholders, landowners and land users”.

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    But Human Rights Watch called in July for the plans to be halted, saying in a report that it had already “devastated thousands of people’s livelihoods in Uganda”.

    The oilfield would “ultimately displace over 100,000 people,” it charged.

    Four environmental groups have filed a criminal complaint on climate grounds against TotalEnergies in France.

    TotalEnergies said Thursday it had named Benin’s former Prime Minister Lionel Zinsou to lead its land acquisition assessment, calling him a “recognised expert in African economic development”.

    Zinsou has worked with the French oil company in the past through his consulting company.

     

    AFP

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