Électricité de France (EDF)
About the company
Électricité de France (EDF)
EDF is a French energy company. In Burma it is involved in the Shweli 3 dam in Northern Shan State. The dam is in a conflict zone, is opposed by local residents and will result in displacement and environmental damage.
Nang San San Aye, a Shan State MP, has stated: “We urge foreign countries to stop promoting and investing in dams in Burma’s war zones. It is fuelling conflict, and undermining efforts to seek peace.”
Contact:
Jean-Bernard Lévy
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
EDF
22/30 avenue Wagram
75008 Paris
France
Email: actionnaires@edf.fr
Sources:
TSYU demand immediate suspension of Shweli 3 Hydropower Project – Ta’ang Students and Youth Union, 4th October 2016
Hydropower is back – By Thomas Kean, Frontier Myanmar, 9th August 2018
https://frontiermyanmar.net/en/hydropower-is-back
Shan Human Rights Foundation report 2016
https://www.shanhumanrights.org/eng/images/2016/pdf/03-30-2016-Namtu–English.pdf
Électricité de France director: ‘Our goal is to get the most competitive financing possible’ – Thomas Kean, Frontier Myanmar, 17th September 2018
Notified 19th July 2019
Added to the Dirty List 20 August 2019
Correspondence
- Although EDF have not responded to Burma Campaign UK, they have responded to the Business and Human Rights Centre. Read the response here.
- Reply to Burma Campaign UK supporter October 2019
The Dirty List
The Dirty List names international companies doing business with the military in Burma. The list also includes international companies involved in projects where there are human rights violations or environmental destruction.
In September 2018, the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on Myanmar, which has been investigating human rights violations in the country, stated:
“The actions of the Tatmadaw (Burmese military) in Kachin, Rakhine and Shan States, in particular in the context of the ‘clearance operations’ in northern Rakhine State in 2016 and 2017, have so seriously violated international law that any engagement in any form with the Tatmadaw, its current leadership, and its businesses, is indefensible.”
A PDF of the full Dirty List is available here.