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Article

5 Jun 2003

Author:
Baku Ceyhan Campaign [signatories include Friends of the Earth, CEE Bankwatch, International Rivers Network, Environmental Defense]

Global call for moratorium on BP's Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline

Environment, rights groups in 29 countries lobby World Bank and Governments - Over 70 environment and human rights groups from 29 countries, today called for an immediate moratorium on a controversial BP oil pipeline...arguing that the pipeline would worsen human rights problems along the pipeline route, and that a background of lack of freedom of speech in the region made proper consultation and land compensation impossible.