We’re joining Earthlife Africa and Friends Of The Earth today to call on the French company Engie (former GDF-Suez) and the French government to divest from coal, starting with a proposed 1200MW coal plant in South Africa.
Engie, which is 35% owned by the French government, is investing in a 1200MW coal plant in the ecologically-sensitive Waterberg area of South Africa, together with Exxaro. Engie is starting to clean up their act in France but simply shipping their fossil fuel business elsewhere. South Africa does not want their carbon bomb!
Help us fill Twitter with a call for a #FossilFreeAfrica and get #EngieOut of SA. We’ve prepped some tweets below, but feel free to add these hashtags to your own tweets too!
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- End dirty coal in South Africa #Engieout #FossilFreeAfrica @ENGIEgroup @ExxaroResources
- The road to COP21 is filled with smoke #DivestFrance #StopThabametsi @ENGIEgroup @ExxaroResources
- South Africans are choking on French pollution from @ENGIEgroup #StopThabametsi #DivestFrance
- Paris COP is stained by @ENGIEgroup’s coal #DirtyCOP21 #DivestFrance
- .@ENGIEgroup has a Pollution CEO not a climate CEO #Engieout #StopThabametsi
- Save our eco-sensitive Waterberg @exxaroresources #StopThabametsi #FossilFreeAfrica
- South Africa does not want France’s dirty investments, @ENGIEgroup #DivestFrance #FossilFreeAfrica
- COP President is exporting a climate bomb to South Africa #StopThabametsi #DivestFrance #DirtyCOP21 @ENGIEgroup
- South Africans for a clean COP21 #FossilFreeAfrica #StopThabametsi