Luisa Neubauer irritates with radical tone: "Blow up the longest pipeline in the world"

Created: 06/15/2022, 05:34

By: Michelle Brey

On Instagram, Luisa Neubauer seems to joke about wanting to blow up a pipeline.

The statement is in the context of a construction project in East Africa.

Copenhagen – With a video on the social media platform Instagram, climate activist Luisa Neubauer causes a stir.

In it, the 26-year-old spoke of a plan to blow up a pipeline.

She took the video on Monday (June 13) in Denmark at the Copenhagen Democracy Summit.

The Instagram story is no longer available.

Story posts on the platform are deleted after 24 hours.

Luisa Neubauer: "Blow up the longest crude oil pipeline in the world"

Laughing, Neubauer looked into the camera and said: "And now we're planning how to...".

The activist did not finish the sentence, instead the giggles of the 26-year-old could be heard.

In an embedded text, however, she added: "Of course we are thinking about how to blow up the longest crude oil pipeline in the world."

The statement by the "Friday's For Future" activist is related to the EACOP pipeline, which is planned to be built in East Africa.

The abbreviation EACOP stands for "East African Crude Oil Pipeline".

According to the project's website, the project is specifically about the following:

• A pipeline 1,443 kilometers long is to be built.

• The pipeline is to be built between Uganda and Tanzania.

• The East African crude oil pipeline is set to become the longest heated pipeline in the world.

• The pipeline is expected to transport 216 thousand barrels of oil per day to the Indian Ocean.

• The French oil company Total Energies and the Chinese group CNOOC are involved in the construction.

Environmentalists criticize the project.

Last but not least, the campaign called "Stop EACOP" wants to draw attention to the construction project.

Their website states that the pipeline will affect wildlife sanctuaries that are of great importance to animals such as elephants, lions and chimpanzees.

In addition, the water supply for millions of people is at risk.

Luisa Neubauer: Statements are irritating – she counters: "Jesus Maria"

On the social platforms, Neubauer received criticism for her words about the pipeline.

She finally responded to a tweet on Monday with the words: "Jesus Maria, it's a book." The 26-year-old also posted a picture of the book cover "How to Blow Up a Pipeline" written by the Swedish author and climate researcher Andreas Malm .

He is considered a pioneer of the radical climate movement.

Andreas Malm wrote, among other things, in a guest article for the newspaper

in relation to climate activism: "We haven't done enough yet.

We have to try harder.

We don't need big concepts to realize that only sabotage and property damage will help now."

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The 26-year-old also referred to Malm's book on her Instagram account.

"'Blow up a pipeline' when it comes to EACOP: Prevent its construction," she wrote under the cover.

That is "not so difficult to understand, one would think," continued Neubauer.

Luisa Neubauer referred to the book "How to Blop Up A Pipeline" by Andreas Malm on Instagram.

© Screenshot Instagram/luisaneubauer

"Climate killer pipeline": Luisa Neubauer comments on the East Africa project - and criticizes Deutsche Bank

A request to Neubauer initially went unanswered.

Compared to

, Neubauer said that the EACOP project would produce almost half a gigatonne of carbon dioxide (CO2).

"We are talking to the French government, to potential investors and insurers of the pipeline, and are mobilizing via social networks so that this climate-killing pipeline is never built, but finally called off," said Neubauer.

Almost all insurers and banks have already refused to support the construction project - "except for Deutsche Bank," said the 26-year-old.

However, the activist did not comment on her words in her Instagram story on Monday.

However, the 26-year-old has always drawn attention to the controversial project.

Only recently did Neubauer express her outrage at Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

She accused Scholz of relativizing Nazi rule and climate change.