In 2020, Liz Truss promised almost £1 billion of UK funding to a gas power plant in northern Mozambique that would be a climate and human rights disaster.
French fossil fuel giant TotalEnergies owns the project, which faces allegations including mass killings, torture and sexual violence by security forces it reportedly employed.
The project was paused without the UK’s funding being claimed, but now Total wants to revive it. Our government must not risk funding further human rights abuses and climate damage.
The UK pulling funding could be a major blow to this project and TotalEnergies’ global business, but we might not have long to make it happen.
Can you write to the Business and Trade Secretary now and demand he cancels this funding?
Read more
- Revealed: Liz Truss lobbied for UK role in project now linked to Mozambique massacre, Politico, 9 October 2024
- ‘All must be beheaded’: Revelations of atrocities at French energy giant’s African stronghold, Politico, 29 October 2024
- Financial institutions don’t take a stance on human rights violations linked to LNG project in Mozambique, Friends of the Earth Europe, 22 January 2025
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