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Article

12 Feb 2007

Author:
CEE Bankwatch Network

Internal US agency watchdog faults BP on BTC pipeline [Georgia]

[T]he Office of Accountability (OA), an internal compliance watchdog of the US Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), is expected to release a report confirming that BP failed to provide the government agency with critical information about the widespread cracking of anti-corrosion coating on the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline...The...report proves that BP and OPIC were...negligent in their responsibility to protect the environment of local communities from flawed anti-corrosion coating and future oil leaks,” said Manana Kochladze an award-winning environmental activist in Tbilisi, Georgia.