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Paul Myers

French court dismisses lawsuit against TotalEnergies pipeline in Africa

An activist protests against the EACOP pipeline in Paris on September 23, 2022. AFP - STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN

A French civil court on Tuesday threw out a lawsuit brought by environmental campaigners against the French energy giant TotalEnergies over its oil projects in Uganda and Tanzania.

Under the case filed in 2019, six French and Ugandan activist groups – including Friends of the Earth France – had accused the company of not doing its utmost to protect people and the environment from the Tilenga oil development and the 3.5 billion euro East African Crude Oil Pipeline.

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