Resistance to the Balkan pipeline carve up is growing
Blog entry | 2 October, 2007Bankwatch staff members have just returned from an invigorating and productive meeting with environmental and human rights groups from 14 countries aimed at developing responses to the rash of oil pipeline projects being proposed in South East Europe to bring Russian and Caspian oil to Europe and the US.
Read moreGeorgians demand action to save their homes from oil pipeline. Official complaint to IFC reveals shocking BTC negligence
Press release | 16 March, 2004Residents of Rustavi, Georgia’s third city, have today submitted an official complaint to the International Finance Corporation (IFC) concerning the potentially disastrous construction of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline only 250 metres from a settlement of high-rise buildings. [1] The residents are taking this step following a prolonged period of uncertainty for them and their homes, a lack of information and response from officials in Georgia and violent intimidation from the regional police force.
Read moreBTC pipeline court case in Tbilisi, Georgia on January 20
Press release | 15 January, 2004The democratic values of Mikhail Saakashvili’s Georgia will come under scrutiny next week when Georgian environment group Green Alternative brings legal proceedings against the Georgian government and the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline Company (BTC Co).
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