*[Enwl-eng] Tell them to back off

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                        So far, TotalEnergies, has failed to find adequate insurance to move its new wrecking project forward: the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP). 

                        Relentless mobilisation from activists and frontline communities are making the biggest firms rule out insuring this disastrous project.

                        Let's make sure others won't: email their CEOs now to NOT insure this polluting pipeline!

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            One leak from the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) could poison the water of Africa’s largest lake that 40 million people depend on for food, farming and their livelihoods.

            The pipeline is an unmitigated environmental disaster.

            With major insurance companies shunning the project because of its dire impact - the list of climate-wrecking firms potentially backing the project is getting smaller and smaller. And without insurance, EACOP will remain a mere pipe dream where it belongs.

            The good news is that it makes our job easier and easier: our list of targets is getting slimmer every day that passes. Relentless mobilisation from activists and communities on the frontline recently made Munich Re rule out insuring this disastrous project. People power works!

            Let’s send the message to all the other insurers who are tempted to underwrite the pipeline: hundreds of thousands of people around the world are watching them and public pressure is growing on them like never before.

             email insurers now to NOT insure this polluting pipeline.

            The EACOP will be the world’s longest heated crude oil pipeline. This massive pipeline would rip through the heart of Africa – displacing communities and endangering wildlife, like elephants, giraffes, lions and leopards. 

            Not only would it be grossly irresponsible to build it in the middle of a climate emergency, it runs the risk of poisoning Lake Victoria - Africa’s largest lake, putting 40 million people at risk. Yet that’s exactly what French oil company TotalEnergies and its insurers are trying to do.

            But the project relies on multiple layers of insurance for its construction phase. And so far, TotalEnergies has failed to find adequate insurance to move the project forward.

            Over 260 organizations are urgently trying to convince insurers around the world to rule out supporting this disastrous project. And we are nearly there.

            Last week, thousands of SumOfUs members joined a photo action on social media to pressurize the US insurance broker, Marsh, to stop brokering the pipeline. Since April, our joint efforts with frontline groups and NGOs at #StopEACOP, have forced 8 insurers to step away from the project, including Munich Re, Allianz and the Lloyd’s syndicate Beazley.

            We still need your help for the final push.

            Vladimir, email insurers now to NOT insure this disastrous project!


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            Thanks for all that you do, 
            Leyla, Charles and the team at SumOfUs



            More information:


            Who's backing the pipeline and who's ruled it out?
            #StopEACOP.


            Hannover Re becomes 5th re/insurer to opt out of East African Crude Oil Pipeline
            Insure Our Future. 28 mars 2022

            Munich Re commits to not insure EACOP
            Insure Our Future. 6 April 2022
           
              
       






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