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Article

9 Mar 2011

Author:
Heather Stewart, Guardian [UK]

BP failed to act on reports of intimidation along Turkish pipeline

The government has censured BP for failing to investigate alleged human rights abuses along the route of the controversial Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline from the Caspian to the Mediterranean...Environmental and human rights groups...claimed victory in the long-running case, after the government upheld a complaint that the oil company failed to act on evidence of intimidation by Turkish security forces along the 1,768km BTC pipeline...BP did set up a formal grievance procedure but campaigners said that was not enough...The report, by the UK "national contact point" for the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which lays down guidelines for the operation of multinationals, upheld this claim, though it exonerated BP on four other points...A spokesman for BP said the company accepted the government's recommendation that it come up with proposals to strengthen its procedures for dealing with allegations of intimidation, but he rejected the claim that the project breached the OECD's guidelines.