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Around 20 Greenpeace activists demonstrate outside the European Commission's headquarters in Brussels to denounce the institution's support for the EastMed gas pipeline project, denounced as a "war monger" and a "climate bomb". They put up a banner several dozen metres long, symbolising the pipeline. Police asks the activists to leave the area. No arrests were made. IMAGES
For the first time, NGOs have tried to halt an oil project through a Paris court, using a 2017 law on multinationals operating outside France. However, the court dismissed the case on Tuesday. We take a closer look at the massive Tilenga project in Uganda, its more than 400 oil wells and the 1,400-kilometre-long pipeline that French oil major TotalEnergies has started to build.
A Paris court could order the oil major TotalEnergies to halt the development of a Uganda pipeline, based on legislation that makes big companies liable for risks to the environment and human rights. The French oil giant has been accused by activist groups of not fairly compensating the people who were expropriated and of endangering Ugandan ecosystems. Also in the show, the White House urges government employees to enforce a ban on TikTok within 30 days. Finally, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis takes the keys of Disney's magic kingdom in Florida.
Oil drilling has begun in a Chinese-operated field in Uganda and the East African country expects to start production by 2025, an official said Tuesday. The spokesman for Uganda's ministry of energy and mineral development, Solomon Muyita, said the beginning of drilling at the Kingfisher oil field in the Kikuube district was “a significant stride” toward achieving commercial oil production. Climate activists have raised concerns about the effects of the pipeline on local communities and the environment.
In tonight's edition: Despite pressure from the EU and from environmental campaigners, Uganda cracks open its plans to cash in on commercial crude. On International Day of Education we hear from the a leading education chief recently back from a tour of Ethiopian classrooms about what the country can do to restore its learning landscape despite the impact of years of conflict. And Cape Verde signs a pioneering debt for nature swap deal with Portugal.
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