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TotalEnergies oil project 'devastating' for Ugandan national park, NGO says

TotalEnergies' well pad under construction inside Murchison Falls National Park in western Uganda on 22 February, 2023. © AFP - Badru Katumba

Production has yet to begin, but TotalEnergies' controversial East African oil project is already taking a dire environmental toll in Uganda's largest national parks, a leading conservationist group said Friday.

Despite opposition from environmentalists and rights activists, the French energy giant is pushing ahead with its Tilenga drilling project in Uganda and a 1,443-kilometre crude oil pipeline to transport its output to the Tanzanian coast.

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