While nearly a third of the country’s service stations are experiencing fuel supply difficulties due to strikes by Esso and TotalEnergies, the government will issue an order to ban the filling of drums at the pump nationwide, BFMTV learned from the Ministry of Energy. Transition.
In recent days, the Minister for the Energy Transition, Agnès Pannier Runacher, had already “asked all the prefects to take this measure” at the local level “as soon as the situation requires it in their territory,” he explained. The Figaro. In several departments, therefore, the filling of drums was already prohibited.
renewed strike
This Monday night, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne will bring together four ministers affected by fuel supply difficulties to “take stock of the state of the discussions” between companies and unions. “I hope the situation recovers as quickly as possible,” Elisabeth Borne told the media from Algiers.
But despite repeated calls by the government to negotiate and end the refinery blockades, the CGT and TotalEnergies management were unable to reach an agreement on Monday, and the strike movement lasted until Tuesday. The strike also continues at the two French Esso-ExxonMobil refineries, and has even spread to fifteen motorway service stations in the Argedis network, a subsidiary of TotalEnergies.
Source: BFM TV
