Thread by @ScientistRebel1

Activists from SR Africa took action in different countries to demand climate action, specifically 1) to halt new oil & gas projects across the continent, 2) invest in clean energy systems, 3) pay up for losses in ecosystems & culture due to extractivism. ✊ #LossAndDamage (1/13)

This campaign happens in the midst of the development of major oil and gas projects in Africa, such as @EACOP_ and the Morroco-Nigeria pipeline. ☠️ (2/13)

The 'Morocco-Nigeria pipeline' is an extension of the West African Pipeline that would make it the world's longest offshore gas pipeline. It will cost about $25 billion dollars which could be invested in clean energy instead of fueling the #ClimateCrisis, (3/13)

and would be finished no earlier than 2046...when the world should be carbon neutral, and not burning fossil fuels. Natural gas is a fossil fuel, and its use from its extraction, processing and combustion is harming people and ecosystems. #ClimateEmergency (4/13)

This project would bring gas to western African countries but also to Europe: countries in the global North therefore also have responsibility in the development of this project. (5/13)

Similarly, @EACOP_ aims at building a huge oil pipeline across Africa, not only representing a climate bomb but also forcing displacements of people, potentially contaminating water sources and destroying ecosystems. The greediness of @TotalEnergies knows no limit. (6/13)

@EACOP_ would release more CO2 than the united footprint of Uganda and Tanzania. It received a strong resistance (@stopEACOP) and some insurers already dropped the project (theenergymix.com/2022/12/01/two…). (7/13)

The EU parliament also adopted a resolution condemning human rights violations & the risks for ecosystems, yet the project is still ongoing. 💀
And these projects are not the only ones endangering African cultures & ecosystems for capitalist profit... (8/13)

@Shell's Bonga North project, @Equinor and @Shell's LNG oil project in Tanzania, @bp_plc's gas project in Mozambique... many others will start in the next years, years that should be marked by radical shifts in our energy systems. (9/13)

Between the 28th & 30th of January, scientists took high risk action in Uganda, Nigeria and Democratic Republic of Congo to protest against these projects. Taking direct action in Africa may be extremely risky as police and governments are known to be brutal on activists. (10/13)

Other African countries keep mobilizing! People are resisting because the science is clear: fossil fuel must stay in the ground and investments should target clean energy systems. (11/13)

These energy systems should be collectively decided on in order to answer the needs of communities in terms of energy supply but also of protection of local cultures & ecosystems rather than the interest of elites. (12/13)

Greedy corporations and governments must be held accountable for their criminal decisions, imposing a death sentence for future generations & ecosystems. (13/13)

➡️ Learn more about the disastrous socio-economic & environmental consequences of @EACOP_ through the lens of local communities directly affected by the project & activists fighting against it in this documentary produced by @350: