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French court dismisses case against TotalEnergies E. Africa oil project

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A French court on Tuesday dismissed a landmark case against TotalEnergies for a massive oil project in Uganda and Tanzania after several NGOs filed a suit to suspend the controversial project.

It was the first case of its kind in France, and activists had hoped it would set a legal precedent to halt projects deemed harmful to the environment and human rights.

It said the plaintiffs submitted accounts to the court in December that were"substantially different" from those that were presented to TotalEnergies in a formal notice in 2019 when the case was initiated. They"only clarified them and consolidated their arguments with more than 200 documents of supporting evidence", said Juliette Renaud, a campaigner with Friends of the Earth.

The 1,443-kilometre pipeline will transport crude from vast oilfields being developed in Lake Albert in northwestern Uganda to a Tanzanian port on the Indian Ocean.

 

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