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While the commission of inquiry of which he was the rapporteur makes its report on TotalEnergies public this Wednesday, June 19, the environmentalist senator from Paris defends the return of the State to the capital of the company and the end of imports of Russian LNG , two of the strongest recommendations of a text adopted by a majority of the right and the center.
After six months of work at the initiative of the environmental group, the Senate commission of inquiry into TotalEnergies’ compliance with its climate commitments reveals its conclusions this Wednesday, June 19. The report, adopted unanimously – a feat in an assembly dominated by the right and the center – does not spare the oil group while formulating 33 recommendations to try to regulate the sector.
In an interview with Release, the rapporteur of this work and environmentalist senator from Paris, Yannick Jadot, deciphers the strongest proposals: return of the State to the shareholding of Total, strengthening of controls on the back and forth between the public and the private sector, stopping of imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Russia. And castigates relationships “too often incestuous” between the oil and gas multinational and the State.
Everyone knows that the fossil fuel industry doesn’t care about the climate crisis. What is this report on Total for?
Its main use is to provide transparency on activities and
