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Total Disaster/

Bird-on-bird murder crisis ruins innocent oil conf!

GOAL: Expose the impossibility of "responsibly" building a pipeline in Africa. 
SUCCESS: 8/10. By ruling out other "responsible" solutions, and then having this one become such a disaster, the Fixers effectively demolish Total's CSR. And most of the press was in France, where it mattered the most.

Selected media coverage:

  • L'Obs: Une conférence de presse sur le pipeline de Total en Afrique se termine dans le sang (archive)
  • Energy Voice: Activists prank TotalEnergies with animal exodus plan (archive)
  • Neon: Arche de Noé 2.0 : Le projet fou de Total pour évacuer des animaux d'Afrique (archive)
  • Connaissance des Energies: Transférer des animaux africains en France : la conférence canular contre un projet pétrolier de TotalEnergies (archive)
  • Joop: Activisten brengen Total in het nauw met hoax over moderne Ark van Noach (archive)
  • BFM TV: Transférer des animaux d'Afrique en France: un canular dénonce le projet pétrolier de TotalEnergies en Ouganda (archive)
  • Huffington Post: Total à l'origine du pire projet de greenwashing ? Pourquoi une ONG a lancé ce piège (archive)
  • Blast: Total, le vrai du faux (archive)

...and lots of Twitter hubbub

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We did this one

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Go impersonate the villain of your choice.

Here's one way to do it.

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Go build a website for an entity you wish existed.

Learn how here!

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Do something.

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Dress up as zombies and take over your city.

Kinda like this...

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Dig a pipeline right through the middle of a city.

Including the graveyards. 

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