Oil companies urged to make sure no money flows from Myanmar projects to military junta

Dimanche 7 mars 2021

Oil companies urged to make sure no money flows from Myanmar projects to military junta

Chevron and Total called on to cease operations in country, which receives $1.1bn a year from oil and gas, after Australia’s Woodside suspends work there

Ben Butler and Ben Doherty Mon 1 Mar 2021 16.30 GMT

Global oil and gas companies Woodside, Chevron and Total should make sure no money flows from projects in Myanmar to the government or be held responsible for effectively helping fund the military junta’s violent repression of the country’s people, pro-democracy advocates say.

[…] PWYP said Total and Chevron should immediately stop making payments – in cash or in kind – to the government from their existing operations and should instead put the money into an escrow account until democracy is restored in Myanmar. Lire la suite.

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