Tag:East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP)

Sustainable Devpt

Three insurers distance themselves from controversial EACOP project

Insurance providers Argo Group and Axis Capital, both Lloyd’s of London members, and RSA Insurance Group Limited, a leading UK insurer, have informed the...

Michael Simire - August 17, 2022

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Pope Francis welcomes activists seeking to stop East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline project

Pope Francis at the Vatican on Wednesday, March 23, 2022, welcomed climate activists from Uganda who called on the leader of the Catholic Church...

admin - March 23, 2022

Pollution

How polluters are slowing down Africa’s progress

The world has no business investing in new fossil fuel developments in our race to the 1.5°C pathway. The International Energy Agency’s (IEA) newly...

Michael Simire - May 25, 2021

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How Greenpeace, Western Anti Africa Energy Groups take wrong approach to EACOP

If someone were to put me on the spot and ask me to name an environmentalist group, I’d probably blurt out the first thing...

Michael Simire - April 19, 2021

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Knocks as Total agrees to build East African crude oil pipeline

French oil company, Total, has been accused of ignoring significant human rights violations and huge environmental and climate risks as it pushed ahead with...

Michael Simire - April 12, 2021

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Banks urged not to finance Total’s East African crude oil pipeline

Some 263 community and not-for-profit organisations from around the world on Monday, March 1, 2021 urged the CEOs of 25 banks not to participate...

Michael Simire - March 1, 2021

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Standard Bank petitioned not to finance East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline

Standard Bank, Africa’s largest bank, has been petitioned not to finance the controversial East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), which stands to be the longest heated...

Michael Simire - June 25, 2020

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