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May 18, 2023

Climate Activists at Africa Energies Summit in London Demand End to Fossil Fuel Projects
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In London, climate activists rallied outside the Africa Energies Summit
Wednesday demanding fossil fuel companies, including Shell and Total,
drop their support for oil and gas projects in Africa. Protesters say
the 900-mile East African Crude Oil Pipeline through Uganda and Tanzania
would be the largest, longest pipeline of its kind in the world,
emitting 53 million tons of carbon per year, displacing 100,000 people
and threatening protected wildlife and water resources. This is Rhiannon
Osborne of the People's Health Movement.

Rhiannon Osborne: "Total Energies and other fossil fuel monsters present
at this conference are leaving thousands without livelihoods and homes,
fueling war, exacerbating the climate crisis and pushing the country
deeper into poverty and crippling debt. This summit must not be
normalized."



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