SANA'A May 08. 2023 (Saba) - The French company, TotalEnergies, is one of the largest investment companies in the oil and gas sector in Yemen. It has majority control of the gas sector and has seven intercontinental companies under its management in Yemen.
The company started its work by competing with American companies. Through cunning and deceptive business practices, TotalEnergies gained primary control of the Yemeni gas sector. The company flooded the Ali Abdullah Saleh regime with gifts, so he would sell his country's gas at the cheapest price possible. Saleh opened the gates of Al-Saeedah (Yemen) wide for the French company to work without accountability or control.
With this new-found freedom, TotalEnergies sucked out Yemen’s wealth, destroyed agricultural lands, poisoned the groundwater, killed livestock, spread dangerous and unusual diseases among people, and turned the lives of Yemenis in the areas of its presence into an unbearable hell.
The company was not merely satisfied with the above arrangement. TotalEnergies also cut a deal with the UAE. The company’s facilities housed political prisons for the Emirati occupation.
Over the last decade, many local and international voices denounced the crimes of these oil pirates. Dozens of field studies and investigations have exposed their illegal practices. The company contaminated both Yemen’s politics and its lands, foreshadowing disasters that Yemenis will have to bare for decades to come.
Perhaps the most important of these investigations into TotalEnergies’ immoral practices in Yemen's good land is an investigation by the French writer, Quentin Müller, for the non-governmental organization Greenpeace. Müller published his report in the French Lopez newspaper in April 2023. The report was titled "Total Black Waters in Yemen.” He spoke about the cause of large-scale contamination in Shabwa province and other areas where Total Energies operate, such as Hadramawt and Marib. All of this was done with the complicity of the Ali Abdullah Saleh regime.
Quentin Müller’s investigation is one in a series of probes into the corruption of the French Government and its use of foreign policy instruments to ensure its dominance in the region. Through dirty tricks the company was able to plunder the wealth of developing countries and poor people around the globe. The report is a compendium of field visits to areas near TotalEnergies’ facilities and the stories of the suffering populations under their exploitation. These areas include: The Sah area in Shabwah, (one of Yemen's most affected areas by oil pollution), Seiyun, Mukalla and Shibam in Hadramawt. Müller arrived at his conclusions by reviewing dozens of exclusive documents that recorded the suspicious acts of TotalEnergies. These claims were further verified by meetings with a number of Yemeni officials.
The investigation sounds the alarm and reaffirms the conclusions of dozens of previous reports, investigations, and local studies into the black record of Total Energies and its oil pirates and vampires that feed off of developing countries and poor people. Those intercontinental companies would not have messed with the lives of developing peoples and plundered their wealth and turned their lands into dumps of toxic waste if not for the collaboration of local traitors who sold-out their homeland, honor, wealth, sovereignty and dignity to the demons of the invaders and the occupiers in exchange for promises of personal wealth.
Translated by Eman Al-Mutawakel
resource : Saba
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