{"id":40923,"date":"2022-01-21T23:01:39","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T14:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/21\/chevron-and-total-withdraw-from-myanmar-gas-project"},"modified":"2022-01-22T01:11:33","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T16:11:33","slug":"chevron-and-total-withdraw-from-myanmar-gas-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40923","title":{"rendered":"Chevron and Total withdraw from Myanmar gas project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French energy firm cites worsening human rights for decision in victory for campaigners<\/p>\n<p>The energy firms Chevron and Total have announced they will withdraw from Myanmar, a breakthrough for activists who have campaigned for the companies to cut off what is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/27\/myanmar-total-chevron-gas-dividend-payments-military\">major source of revenue<\/a> for the military junta.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Total, which renamed itself TotalEnergies last year, cited the worsening human rights situation in Myanmar, which was plunged into chaos almost a year ago when the military seized power in a coup, ousting the democratically elected government of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/aung-san-suu-kyi\">Aung San Suu Kyi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/21\/chevron-and-total-withdraw-from-myanmar-gas-project\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French energy firm cites worsening human rights for decision in victory for campaignersThe energy firms Chevron and Total have announced they will withdraw from Myanmar, a breakthrough for activists who have campaigned for the companies to cut off what&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2196,657,733,82,1945,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-chevron","category-energy-industry","category-gas","category-myanmar","category-oil-and-gas-companies","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40923"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40938,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40923\/revisions\/40938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}