ENI, Italy’s Oil & Gas giant, and Ithaca Energy team up to produce over 100 thousand barrels of oil per day in the North Sea. Too bad Britain’s Ithaca Energy is 89% controlled by the Israeli Delek Group, blacklisted by the UN due to operations in the illegally occupied Palestinian Territories.
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Last April ENI signed a merger agreement between its U.K. subsidiary and Britain’s Ithaca Energy, 89 percent owned by Delek Group. The synergy with Ithaca Energy is aimed at North Sea production of more than 100,000 barrels of oil per day in the near term and more than 150,000 by 2030. Yet another confirmation of the company’s willingness to continue with its fossil “business as usual” to the detriment of climate and environment, compounded here by its relationship with a company, Ithaca Energy, whose 2023 revenues, over $350 million, were transferred almost entirely to Israel’s Delek Group, which is complicit in violating the rights of the Palestinian people.
Delek Group provides services to support the maintenance of illegal Israeli settlements, where it employs natural resources, particularly water and land, for commercial purposes. Recently, evidence has emerged showing that the Delek Group has ties to the Israeli military. Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) vehicles have been allowed to refuel at hundreds of gas stations owned by Delek Israel, another of Delek Group’s subsidiaries.
“Eni has a strong business relationship with a company that is in fact helping to finance the war in the Middle East,” said Eva Pastorelli. “This is why we feel it is necessary for Italian civil society to speak out and ask our country’s main multinational to break this controversial link. No economic interest can justify the perpetuation of a conflict that has already reaped tens of thousands of victims and whose end is currently not in sight,” Pastorelli concluded.
The petition has already been signed by many Italian civil society groups: Greenpeace Italia, Friday for Future Italia, FOCSIV, A Sud, Scomodo, Rinascimento Green, Coordinamento nazionale No Triv, BDS Italia, Presidio Libera Potenza “Elisa Claps e Francesco Tammone,” Cova Contro, Teachers for Future Italia, L.E.A Berta Cáceres, WWF Potenza and inland areas, Paesaggi Meridiani, Comitato per la Pace Potenza, Un Ponte Per.
