Africa Energy Week: Experts call out new plan to sneak fossil fuels into COP27 agenda

As the fossil fuel industry meets this week in Cape Town, South Africa, on the occasion of the Africa Energy Week, the plan is a new push to scale up fossil fuels.

This is for “geopolitical leverage”, to initiate a “new era” of fossil fuel discoveries, expand into Africa’s “least explored frontiers”, increase their profits through “enhanced oil recovery techniques” (i.e., fracking), redraw Africa’s oil and energy map through new pipelines, and to change laws and regulations to achieve these goals.

...Dean Bhekumuzi Bhebhe, the Campaigns Lead for Power Shift Africa, stated: “Collusion by European and African energy elites to continue colonizing the continent with dirty energy infrastructure, will saddle Africa with dangerous projects that it doesn’t need, entrench the energy apartheid facing millions of Africans, and risk tipping Africa and the world into catastrophic climate disruption.”