A group for everyone who thinks it's time TOTAL OIL stopped funding the Burmese junta.
**Join the European day of action against TOTAL on May 16th, details in Recent News (Below)**
French oil company TOTAL is the fourth largest oil company in the world and Europe's largest investor in Burma. TOTAL is in a joint venture with Burma's dictatorship in the Yadana gas project in southern Burma, which earns the regime hundreds of millions of dollars every year.
Since the violent crackdown against demonstrators in Burma in October, TOTAL has been lobbying the French government to keep oil and gas out of tighter EU sanctions against the regime. So far it has been successful.
Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's democracy leader, has said that "TOTAL is the biggest supporter of the military regime in Burma".
With the media's attention waning, TOTAL thinks it has weathered the storm of public outrage. Now is the time to show them it's only just beginning...
(read less)A group for everyone who thinks it's time TOTAL OIL stopped funding the Burmese junta.
**Join the European day of action against TOTAL on May 16th, details in Recent News (Below)**
French oil company TOTAL is the fourth largest oil company in the world and Europe's largest investor in Burma. TOTAL is in a joint venture with Burma's dictatorship in the Yadana gas project in southern Burma, which earns the regime hundreds of millions of dollars every year.
Since the violent crackdown against...
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