The East African Crude Oil Pipeline: New risk developments (August 2021)
Cost of Hoima-Tanga pipeline hits $5b as risk averse banks walk away from project
Pressure mounts on EACOP insurers amid carbon push
Uganda: Release human rights defender arrested while investigating impacts of Total’s oil projects
Maxwell Atuhura, a field worker for our partner organization AFIEGO (Africa Institute for Energy Governance) and fellow member of the global #StopEACOP Alliance dedicated to stopping the development of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline, was arrested along with Italian journalist Federica Marsi yesterday in Buliisa, Uganda’s oil region. The arrest occurred as they were […]
EACOP’s financing blues as lenders desert $3.5b project
Total signs deal to build East African oil pipeline, despite lack of finance
In Brief: Nonprofits urge banks not to finance oil pipeline in East Africa
Organizations aim to block funds for East African oil pipeline
Over 260 organizations call on banks not to finance Total’s East African Crude Oil Pipeline
Today, 263 community and non-governmental organizations from around the world urged the CEOs of 25 banks not to participate in loans to fund the construction of the world’s longest heated crude oil pipeline. In an open letter, organizations from 49 countries, including 122 African-based organizations, detail the immense threats that the 1,445-kilometer-long East African Crude […]