COURT REJECTS OIL GIANT

COURT REJECTS ATTEMPTS BY OIL GIANT TOTAL ENERGIES E&P FROM BLOCKING INDIGENT LAND OWNERS TO PETITION COURT OVER NON-PAYMENT OF COMPENSATION FOR LOST SURFACE RIGHTS TO THEIR LAND

After a four-year battle, Total (E & P) Ug Limited has been thumped in a case filed by disgruntled project affected persons (PAPs) in its oil and gas exploration exercise in the Albertine Graben.

While exploring for oil and gas around 2013, Total destroyed large tracts of land bearing crops belonging to residents of Ngwendo Sub-county, Buliisa District. The crops included maize, cotton, simsim, and ground nuts and over 103 residents were never compensated while those who received compensation received inadequate pay. 

In 2016, with the aid of Advocates for Natural resourced and Development (ANARDE), the 103 residents dragged Total (E & P) Uganda Limited to the High Court of Uganda at Masindi, seeking for declarations of violations of their rights, payment for compensation for their lost crops as well as damages for damage done to the surface of their land.

Court rejects Oil Giant.pdf