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China-Backed Oil Pipeline Threatens Ugandan Families and Wildlife

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Human rights organizations and environmentalists have said the planned oil pipeline stretching from Uganda's Lake Albert to Tanzania's Indian Ocean coast risks displacing thousands of families and wildlife habitats. Enviromentalists are worried that it will threaten vulnerable species, such as elephants and chimpanzees, and carbon emissions could be increased. The multibillion-dollar project is being led by French energy company TotalEnergies, which will construct oilfields in Uganda and transport the crude through a 1,445-kilometer (900-mile) pipeline to a port in Tanzania. An official confirmed that the Ugandan government is in the closing stages of talks with Chinese bankers to help fund a contentious pipeline project after some Western partners withdrew.

Human rights organizations and environmentalists have said the planned oil pipeline stretching from Uganda's Lake Albert to Tanzania's Indian Ocean coast risks displacing thousands of families and wildlife habitats. Enviromentalists are worried that it will threaten vulnerable species, such as elephants and chimpanzees, and carbon emissions could be increased.

An official confirmed that the Ugandan government is in the closing stages of talks with Chinese bankers to help fund a contentious pipeline project after some Western partners withdrew.

 

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