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June 14, 2023

South African Activists Take Aim at Standard Bank in Fight to Stop East African Pipeline
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Climate activists in Johannesburg, South Africa, protested at the
offices of Standard Bank during its annual shareholder meeting Monday,
demanding the company end its support for the proposed East African
Crude Oil Pipeline. The 900-mile pipeline would carry crude oil from
Uganda to Tanzania before being exported to refineries in Rotterdam.
France's Total Energies and the China National Offshore Oil Corporation
are behind EACOP, working with Ugandan and Tanzanian state-owned oil
firms. Kumi Naidoo, the former head of Greenpeace International and
Amnesty International, and Extinction Rebellion activist Malik Dasoo
were forcibly removed from Standard Bank during their peaceful protest.


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