TO Turin, city where the G7 Climate, Energy and Environment, ReCommon will bring Juan Mancias, spokesperson for Native Americans Carrizo Comecrudo. The community is located in the Texan territory on the border with Mexico, the Rio Grande Valley, where a mega-terminal for liquefied natural gas is about to be built. Mancias, on behalf of his community, gives a big No to the project.
April 28, 2024
Turin it is the city where, from 28 to 30 April, the G7 Climate, Energy and Environment. «But it is also the city of Intesa Sanpaolothe leading Italian bank both in terms of capitalization and support for fossil fuels” stigmatizes the ReCommon organization in a note announcing a mobilization in recent days.
«We will bring to the Piedmontese capital a guest who comes from afar, but who has a very clear message for the G7 ministers and the leaders of Intesa Sanpaolo: no more extracting gas and no more funding for the infrastructure needed to exploit the gas – writes the ReCommon collective – Our guest is called Juan Mancias and is the spokesperson of the Native Americans Carrizo Comecrudo. The community is located in the Texan territory on the border with Mexico, the Rio Grande Valley, where yet another mega-terminal for liquefied natural gas, Rio Grande LNG, is about to be built. which has already received record funding 1.08 billion dollars from Intesa Sanpaolo. Elon Musk’s SpaceX space base is also located near the hypothetical Rio Grande LNG construction site, an element that raises doubts about safety, as well as about the certain socio-environmental impacts linked to the construction of the work”.
«In short, a territory destined to become yet another sacrifice zone in the name of the extractivist mantra – they continue from ReCommon – Juan Mancias will intervene in the meetings organized by civil society during the G7 days. He will make his voice heard by also asking Intesa Sanpaolo to account for his actions. Who knows if the number one Italian fossil bank will respond, perhaps by meeting him, as we asked him to do – continues ReCommon – For the moment Intesa Sanpaolo doesn’t seem very willing to talk: he doesn’t respond to us when we ask him about his fossil investments nor to the communities impacted or the hundreds of people who write to them to dissuade it from supporting extractive projects in Mozambique, where a bloody conflict is underway. But it is not even a real answer that the Turin credit institution gave to a group of investors who were asking for a more effective environmental policy. A very mild commitment, which who knows if it will ever be respected.”
Photo: ReCommon
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