This is a warning : Total’s Annual General Meeting will not / must not take place.

In the midst of the energy crisis, in the midst of the mobilization against the pension reform, in the midst of the democratic crisis, this General Assembly plans to perpetuate the strategy of the oil company : always more fossil projects and an unfair distribution of the super-profits which feeds the climatic and social injustice.

As the biggest polluter in France, Total embodies the worst of the exploitation of the planet and its people. Total is superprofits boosted by inflation and the war in Ukraine : 36 billion euros in profits. That’s 9.4 billion euros directly into the pockets of shareholders, while 12 million French people struggle daily to heat themselves, fill up with gasoline or feed themselves.
It is the salary of its CEO, Patrick Pouyanné, which increases indecently while employees are refused to align their wages with inflation. It is polluting projects that destroy the environment and the livelihoods of many communities around the world, and violate their human rights.

Total’s managers have known it for 50 years : the company’s activities are pushing us ever closer to chaos.

Each new oil and gas project is another blow to the preservation of our living conditions on Earth. In Uganda, Tanzania, South Africa, Mozambique, the United States, Argentina, Algeria, Qatar, Nigeria... the insatiable hurricane Total is destroying everything in its path.

How many times do scientists need to be reminded of this ?No more new fossil fuel exploitation projects must see the light of day to preserve our living conditions on the planet.

This Annual General Meeting will bring together Total’s shareholders. Among them, its financiers and investors, BNP Paribas, Credit Agricole or Amundi, and those who ensure their climate change projects, such as Marsh Mclennan in the United States, are also responsible. Without their complicity, Total would not be able to continue its deadly activities.

Emmanuel Macron is also complicit.

Despite fine speeches about getting out of fossil fuels that fool no one, the French government’s connivance with the French giant’s climate-damaging activities is blatant : the president supports the expansion of fossil fuels in the shadows, as he did with the EACOP pipeline and the Le Havre LNG tanker.

While the government and the authorities still refuse to act to hold the multinational accountable for its abuses, while the state chooses, as it did in Sainte Soline, to defend the interests of the powerful rather than the general interest by all means, even the most violent, we are taking the lead. Until Total puts an end to these deadly activities, we will be there. All over France, we are calling for a wave of actions against Total and its accomplices.

We will not let the fossil fuel industry and its supporters steal our lives and the future of humanity.