In French Guiana, a community of indigenous Kali’na began actively resisting plans for the world’s first baseload renewable power plant using hydrogen technology—the CEOG project—in November 2022. The energy company, Hydrogene de France (HDF Energy), had touted the plans as an initiative that would deliver jobs for the local community, support a village’s self-sufficiency, serve the nearby power grid and leave plenty of free land for the locals’ use.
An agreement ends resistance to a renewable energy plant in French Guiana, but is it energy justice?
