Nathanael Bentura
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09:27, March 28, 2022
The candidate for the presidential election of the Europe Écologie les Verts party is the guest of the morning of Europe 1. Asked about the policy of the Total group in Russia, Yannick Jadot repeated the importance, according to him, of being content renewable energies, “the only energies of peace, security and independence”.
Asked about the Total group’s decision to maintain its presence in Russia, Yannick Jadot declared on Monday at the microphone of Europe 1 that “all this war has shown how dramatic our dependence on fossil fuels was for peace and security in the world. “. Before repeating its commitment to renewable energies: “If there is a lesson to be learned from all this context, and it is the International Energy Agency that says so, it is that renewable energies are the only energies of peace, security and independence.”
“We cannot let Total go everywhere, in violation of human rights”
During the interview, the environmentalist presidential candidate strongly condemned Total’s decision: “Do you think that the Ukrainians are happy that we are helping Russia’s war financing?” he questioned before asking for more ethics: “We cannot let Total go everywhere, in violation of human rights, to fetch oil and gas.” He also maintained his charges of “complicity in war crimes” against the Total group. The latter sued the candidate for defamation.
Yannick Jadot then made the correlation between the geopolitical and ecological disasters: “All these dependencies on fossil fuels lead us into dramatic situations and first of all for the climate. The alternative to shale gas which is extremely polluting is the one we have been proposing for years: firstly, to reduce our energy consumption by making the lives of French people more comfortable and giving them back purchasing power. Secondly, to deploy renewable energies.”