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Acties tegen bouw oliepijpleidingen
02.12.2002 23:39
Vandaag hebben activisten van Rising Tide en anderen geprotesteerd om de bouw van twee omvangrijke oliepijpleidingen vanuit Azerbaijan, via Georgie naar Turkije te voorkomen.
De acties vonden plaats bij het kantoor van de Environmental Services Management vanwege hun medeplichtigheid in de plannen van BP.
De schade aan het milieu kan een ramp betekenen voor de regio.
Verscheidene activisten lukte het de kantoren binnen te komen en hielden het
bezet terwijl anderen buiten spandoeken tussen de bomen hingen en bij de
ingang demonstreerden.
De schade aan het milieu kan een ramp betekenen voor de regio.
Foto's op Indymedia UK :
 http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=48054&group=webcast
In Tbilisi, Georgie hielden tegenstanders van de pijpleidingeen protest op 27 november bij de Georgian International Oil Company (GIOC),
Hieronder het persbericht van Green Alternative Georgia.
Foto's van de actie staan op on www.falkor.org.
Helaas was er vandaag slecht nieuws dat het ministerie van milieu in Georgie (onder zware druk) toch toestemming heeft gegeven voor de bouw van de oliepijpleiding door het natuurreservaat en bronwatergebied Borjomi.
zie verder
http://www.civil.ge/cgi-bin/newspro/fullnews.cgi?newsid1038834745,26304
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CEE Bankwatch Network * Association "Green Alternative"
Georgians Protest "Zero Minus One" Risk Theory in Baku-Ceyhan Oil
Pipeline
Tbilisi, November 27, 2002 --- Today groups of citizens joined
representatives from various NGOs and political parties in protest in
front of the Georgian International Oil Company (GIOC), which represents
Georgia in the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline project. The protest
came in response to the Georgian Government's decision to issue
permission for construction by November 30. The decision violates
Georgian environmental legislation as it allows the pipeline to pass
through protected areas and water sanctuary zones in the sensitive
Borjomi Gorge. Both decisions, the Government says, were made to meet
the project timeline and thus fulfil British Petroleum requirements. A
GIOC spokesman shrugged off environmental concerns, saying that due to
the pipeline operator's high professionalism the risk would be "zero
minus one".
"Since November 2001, British Petroleum has continued to ignore the
requests and recommendations of civil society and independent experts
such as the Dutch environmental impact assessment commission to develop
other alternatives for pipeline routing," stated Nino Gujaraidze,
executive director of the Association "Green Alternative". As a result
the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) suggesting only
one route passing through the Borjomi region prevailed without
discussion. Meanwhile, experts and environmentalists have clearly
demonstrated that the project will have negative ecological impacts not
only on the drinking and mineral water resources in the Borjomi gorge,
but also on protected areas such as Borjomi-Kharagauli National Park.
"The future of Borjomi should not be connected with oil and we do not
believe that anybody can guarantee that nothing will happen with the
pipe," added well-known Georgian writer Dato Turashvili.
British Petroleum needed a quick approval of the ESIA before the end of
November when the Ministry of Environment of Georgia submitted 32
fundamental questions still not adequately reflected in the ESIA. The
concerns are based on the conclusions of Georgian scientists, the Dutch
EIA Commission, World Bank experts and French hydrologists. BP remains
stubborn in accepting alternative routes. In a letter to President
Shevardnadze, David Woodward, associate president of BP Azerbaijan,
states that "it may be necessary to inform experts who visit with
[President Shevardnadze] in the coming weeks that routes through this
district are and will remain unacceptable"
While British Petroleum claims that it held public consultations
according to the best practices, activists disagree. "Public input was
carried out like a game 'Thanks for your comment, but you're wrong,"
says Manana Kochladze from CEE Bankwatch Network. "The public was
provided insufficient information and major affected groups such as
mineral water producers or National Park administration were not
invited. Considering BP's record around the world, however, I'm not
surprised."
BP leads the Azerbaijan International Operating Co consortium, that is
planning to build the 1,770-km long Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline.
The pipeline would transport up to one million barrels per day (50
million tonnes per annum) of crude oil from an expanded Sangachal
terminal near Baku in Azerbaijan, through Georgia to a new marine
terminal at Ceyhan on Turkey's Mediterranean coast. Partners in the
venture include Unocal, Statoil, TPAO, ENI Agip, Itochu, ConocoPhillips,
INPEX, TotalFinaElf and Amerada Hess.
In the late 1990s, the International Finance Corporation (the World
Bank's private-sector arm) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and
Development invested in Borjomi's Georgian Glass & Mineral Waters
Company, allowing the company to modernise its facilities and develop
new business plans. Last year the company generated revenues of USD 60
million.
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