{"id":66252,"date":"2024-04-05T13:24:41","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T11:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/?p=66252"},"modified":"2025-06-18T13:31:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T11:31:26","slug":"100-years-totalenergies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/story\/66252\/100-years-totalenergies\/","title":{"rendered":"100 years of TotalEnergies – a dark legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Flare stack at Total oil refinery in Immingham, UK
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On 28 March 2024, the French oil and gas giant TotalEnergies celebrated its 100-year anniversary. In a happy coincidence, Total\u2019s centennial party was spoiled by the news that their intimidatory legal action against Greenpeace France was unsuccessful!<\/p>\n\n

The ruling was a <\/strong>major victory for freedom of expression and the fight against polluting companies like Total – especially since they are hellbent on expanding climate-wrecking operations despite a worsening climate crisis. Behind its facade as a “French industrial flagship” lies a grim history of environmental devastation and links to human rights abuses. <\/p>\n\n

TotalEnergies\u2019 history of lies <\/h3>\n\n

Researchers have found that Total’s awareness that its products could lead to catastrophic global warming dates to the early 1970s<\/a>. However, according to historians, Total <\/strong>chose t<\/strong>o implement a strategy of misinformation<\/a> and a “factory of doubt” for many years, in order to delay and distract political action to limit oil and gas extraction.<\/p>\n\n

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