A-Infos (en) Italy, Anarres Info: NO TO THE G7 ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT. ENI: BLOOD, OIL, WAR | Critical Looks (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

This year the G7, the network that unites the seven most industrialized 
countries, is chaired by the Italian government. The final summit, 
attended by heads of state, will be held in Bari in June. ---- From 28 
to 30 April the summit dedicated to energy and the environment will take 
place in the palace of Venaria. ---- The choice to put these two themes 
together, bringing the ministers and their Sherpas together in Venaria, 
is in itself indicative of the desire to consider environmental 
protection a variable dependent on energy orientations, with a very 
clear hierarchical relationship .
If you consider that the last COP, dedicated to the ongoing climate 
catastrophe, was held in Qatar, a country floating on a sea of gas and 
oil, and the next one will be from 11 to 22 November in Azerbaijan, 
which owes the own fortune in being an energy hub based mainly on fossil 
fuels, it is well understood that the logic of profit prevails over any, 
always ambiguous, ecological transition project.
The ecological transition must be a good deal: until it is, fossil fuels 
will continue to be the preferred choice of governments and energy 
multinationals.
The Plenitude campaign is pounding. Spots, billboards, banners, events, 
advertisements show scenarios of "decarbonisation", "circular economy", 
"sustainability". In 2019, CEO Claudio Descalzi spoke of a "collective 
call to action", of the assumption of "great responsibilities" in the 
face of the "need to actively intervene in combating climate change".
Chatter and smoke and mirrors.
This year ENI made it clear that renewables cost a lot and yield little, 
so the National Hydrocarbons Authority will continue to invest massively 
in gas and oil.
From 2019 to today, thanks to a series of acquisitions, ENI has become 
"the second largest E&P - exploration and production - company in 
Norway, with total reserves and resources equal to approximately 1.9 
billion barrels of oil"
In the deep waters of the "Kutei" basin, in Indonesia, Eni was awarded 
the West Ganal exploration block in 2019, with 17 billion cubic meters 
of gas from the "discovered" field called Maha.
The exploitation of Egyptian gas fields has reached record levels.
These are just a few examples.
On March 14 this year it presented its Capital markets update 2024-2027, 
with which the six-legged dog outlines the industrial development plan 
for the next few years.
The central element remains the exploration and production of fossil 
fuels: instead of slowing down, ENI accelerates. «Upstream production is 
expected to grow at an average annual rate of 3-4% until 2027». This 
choice, in stark contrast to what was declared in 2021, will lead to a 
significant increase in climatic emissions.
According to Greenpeace Italia, ReCommon and Reclaim Finance, who 
carried out an analysis of the six-legged dog's climate strategy, 
between now and 2027 «Eni plans to increase oil and gas production and 
keep it constant until 2030. By doing so, its production will be 71% 
higher than in the net zero emissions scenario."
Clean energy activities remain marginal: «For every euro invested by Eni 
in fossil fuels, less than seven cents were invested in sustainable 
renewable energy»
Another constant is the close interconnection between numerous Italian 
military missions in Africa (but not only) and the interests of ENI.

Military missions abroad including gas, oil and uranium
The government's armed diplomacy to secure the profits of the 
multinational oil company extends from Libya to the Sahel to the Gulf of 
Guinea. These areas have strategic importance for ENI's interests, 
because the major African producers of gas and oil are located there. 
The objective is the protection of offshore platforms and extraction 
facilities.
ENI today represents the spearhead of Italian colonialism in Africa.
The flag with the six-legged dog of ENI flies alongside the tricolor 
flag in places where desertification and the predation of resources 
destroy the lives of many of those who live there.
The neocolonial war for the control of energy resources is accompanied 
by the offensive against people on the move, to push migrants back into 
Libyan prisons, where torture, rape and murder are normal occurrences. 
Migrations towards rich countries are the result of the predatory 
ferocity of neocolonial policies.

Niger. The new frontier of colonialism made in Italy
Seventy million euros. This is the amount allocated in July 2022 by the 
European Union to support the Niger army. Money that Brussels has had 
difficulty managing since, at the end of July 2023, the military led by 
General Abdourahamane Tchiani deposed President Mohamed Bazoum in Niamey.
Some of the most important member states of the Union have divergent 
positions on the subject. France and Germany, for example, are pushing 
to withdraw the funds and allocate them to other West African states. 
Italy, however, aims to maintain a dialogue with Niamey and find a 
compromise with the military junta in power, the self-proclaimed 
National Council for the Protection of the Homeland.
The 70 million euros allocated by the EU to equip the Nigerian armed 
forces are in fact managed on behalf of the Union by the Defense 
Industries Agency (AID), a body controlled by the Italian Ministry of 
Defence. A nice nest egg to maintain its military presence in Niger, 
after the expulsion of the French and, more recently, the Americans, who 
were ordered to abandon the Agadez drone base. In the meantime, in the 
sub-Saharan country, beyond the tones of anti-colonial revolt adopted by 
the new lords of Niamey, other actors have appeared and established 
themselves, China and, since 11 April, the Russians of the Africa Corps 
(formerly Wagner), who although not being regular troops, they would be 
state employees, not private mercenaries.
Italy maintains good relations with the coup plotters in government and 
intends to remain in the country, where it has had its own base for two 
years. The Meloni government declared that the Italian military will 
resume training Nigerien troops.
The tricolor military contingent is a fundamental piece in the 
outsourcing of the war to migrants and, not secondarily, for the control 
of the country's uranium resources. Uranium is the basis of fuel for 
nuclear power plants and atomic bombs.
In Italy the pro-nuclear propaganda, now cleared by the COP as a source 
comparable to renewables, is increasingly insistent.
Between uranium, migrants and redefinition of balances and areas of 
influence, Italian imperialism is trying to carve out its own space.

Azerbaijani gas, the Armenian question, Leonardo's weapons
The republic of Artsakh, an enclave in Azerbaijani territory, 
established between 1992 and 1994, no longer exists: in September 2023, 
after a year of siege, it was occupied by Azerbaijani troops in an 
ethnic cleansing operation that led to the expulsion of over 100 
thousand Armenians. A few months earlier, Leonardo, with the approval of 
Defense Minister Crosetto, had supplied military aircraft and missiles 
which were used in the war on Artsakh by soldiers trained in our country.
The openness towards the Baku regime on the part of the entire European 
Union has a precise reason: Azerbaijani gas, which has largely replaced 
Russian gas in supply to Europe.
In 2023, Russian gas imports into Europe collapsed: from 42% in 2021 to 14%.
For this reason, no one has lifted a finger for the Armenian population 
forced to flee and it is probable that if Azerbaijan were to attack and 
annex southern Armenia, as it has been promising for some time, the 
scenario would not change. And for those who rightly object to Putin's 
dictatorship and its hasty and brutal methods, it should be remembered 
that Ilham Aliyev behaves with elegance equal to his counterpart in Moscow.
The connection between energy choices, ENI's interests and war with 
weapons made in Italy are completely transparent.

From 28 to 30 April in the Royal Palace of Venaria, 7 of the main 
people responsible for wars, pollution, exploitation and climate 
catastrophe will sit at a table to stage a show that will mix 
high-sounding declarations on the planet, with chatter about development 
and well-being, which , will once again be linked to the infinite 
increase in production.

Opposing war and the logic of profit is one of the keys to slowing down 
the ongoing environmental catastrophe.

Stopping them is possible. Stopping them is necessary.
Starting from our home.
We fight against Italian neocolonialism, we boycott ENI and the arms 
factories, we prevent the return of nuclear power, we block military 
missions abroad.

Sunday 28 April
2pm
Galileo Galilei park in Venaria (TO)
Antimilitarist segment
against the G7 energy and environment
against ENI, extractivist logic, Italy's neocolonial military missions

Antimilitarist Assembly of Turin

https://www.anarresinfo.org/no-al-g7-energia-ed-ambiente-eni-sangue-petrolio-guerra/
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