Read a text description of this video Uganda "Nsubuga", Farmer This is where the pipeline will pass.I am very worried because it is so close to my house and I don't know what will happen. Narration All along the route of the planned East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), the echoes of communities voicing the same concerns. If built, the 1,443 kilometer pipeline would link the Tilenga and Kingfisher oil fields in western Uganda to the Tanzanian coast. Diana Nabiruma, Africa Institute of Energy Governance There is a lot of resistance against the EACOP because the Tilenga, Kingfisher, and EACOP oil projects are bad for people, are bad for nature, and are bad for climate change. Maxwell Atuhura, Environmental Activist I object the pipeline because it has displaced thousands and thousands of people without enabling them to regain their land elsewhere. Narration TotalEnergies and the Chinese company CNOOC acquired the rights to develop the oil fields along with Ugandan and Ta
Click to expand Image Ugandan security officials detain a protester during a march in support of the European Parliament resolution to stop the construction of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline in Kampala, Uganda, October 4, 2022. 2022 REUTERS/Abubaker Lubowa On Monday, nine student climate activists in Uganda will again appear before a Kampala court charged with "common nuisance" for their activism against a proposed oil pipeline. They were arrested and charged last year while marching to deliver a petition to the European Union's mission in Kampala supporting a European Parliament resolution. The resolution raised significant concerns, including environmental ones, about the planned East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) and urged against its construction. In sharp contrast to the treatment of the climate activists, days earlier, students protesting against the resolution had received police protection. The unfounded and politically motivated charges against the act
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