Dirty Lies Award for Outstanding Contribution to Human Rights Violations**

Ladies and gentlemen,

Human rights can be skillfully trampled on with a special entrepreneurial spirit. In the LNG sector, too, many companies have a special knack for this. Many are doing outstanding work in this field, causing people to lose their homes and livelihoods and entire regions to be affected by immensely high cancer rates. Elsewhere, of course. After all, you don’t want this to happen on your own doorstep.
Total Energies has been particularly brilliant when it comes to human rights violations. As the world’s third-largest LNG player and the leading LNG importer in Europe, the company has a diverse range of activities: For example, the group does not shy away from evicting people from their land for a gas project in Mozambique. Unfortunately, a violent conflict recently intervened. Malicious tongues claim that they themselves were not entirely uninvolved. But hey, who can judge that from here…? They want to resume construction work as soon as possible. They skillfully ignore the danger of extreme poverty that threatens many people through the loss of their livelihoods, such as farmland and access to the sea.
TotalEnergies reacts skillfully to local protests: until recently, they sponsored the Mozambican military with fancy equipment and generous donations to ensure the “security” of their project. It is therefore understandable that it will take some time before the displaced people can be compensated for the land grab - after all, priorities have to be set.
TotalEnergies furthermore is making a significant contribution to financing the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine. They are the largest non-Russian buyer of Russian liquefied natural gas, with 20% of their total LNG coming from Russia in 2023. TotalEnergies of course thinks EU sanctions against Russian gas are stupid. Incidentally, they are also involved in Novatek’s Yamal LNG project in Russia, which, in turn, is pouring a lot of tax money into Putin’s war chest.
TotalEnergies shows that trifles like people and their rights are for cowards. If you care, you lose. The status quo can only be secured by maximizing profits and with deliberate blind spots.
By the way, TotalEnergies is generously financed by Deutsche Bank, among others, for its heroic deeds.
On International Human Rights Day, we would like to congratulate TotalEnergies on this impressive achievement and present this bleeding pipeline as a memento.