The general meeting of shareholders of TotalEnergies approved the company’s climate strategy, but for the LFI deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis, Aurélie Trouvou, this multinational is “world champion in climate-killing investments.”
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“Total represents this world that we no longer want”said, Friday, May 26, on franceinfo the LFI deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis, Aurélie Trouvou, while the shareholders of TotalEnergies largely validated the group’s climate strategy, during a general meeting held under pressure from demonstrators. , but also from the government, who are calling on it to turn away from fossil fuels more quickly.
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TotalEnergies is “the multinational world champion in climate-killing investments, particularly in hydrocarbons”asserts Aurélie Trouvé.
“A multinational whose profits are exploding – 20 billion net profit – and which invests them massively in its climaticide projects rather than in renewable energies”.
Aurélie Trouvé, LFI deputy for Seine-Saint-Denisat franceinfo
While the Prime Minister believes that “climate activists”present on Friday before the general meeting of TotalEnergies, were “in their role of alerting and saying that we must speed up”MP LFI points “the impotence of this government, of Elisabeth Borne and of the Minister of the Economy Bruno Lemaire, who says ‘we can’t do anything because it’s up to the shareholders to decide'”.
Act in the name of the general interest
The Insoumise refutes this position of the executive and recalls that “The state is supposed to represent the general interest and act in particular on these multinationals which are destroying the planet, which pay mirobolant sums to the major shareholders, to the CEOs”.
Faced with these sums paid to shareholders and managers of large companies, the deputy Aurélie Trouvou specifies that a bill has been tabled to “frame revenues in these large companies” so that “these incomes only have a difference of 1 to 20, when today they are 1 to, sometimes, 4,000 or 5,000”. She also pleads for “ecological taxation and strong regulation of the investments of these multinationals” prohibiting “eventually, investments in hydrocarbons”. Aurélie Trouvé denounces the“ultraliberalism of this government which makes believe that the State could not act. Of course that it can act and it must act because there is urgency”.
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