Over 1,000 miles long, it [the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline] is a classic example of pretensions to corporate social responsibility claimed by the BP consortium being trampled all over by the stampede for oil...we need two reforms to ensure multinational companies can be held to account over their disregard for environmental, social, civil and legal rights: they should be legally responsible for the actions of their agents or subsidiaries abroad, and action against a UK company abroad should be enforceable in UK courts.