Balanced News: Construction underway on east Africa crude oil pipeline project

Construction is underway on the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) and Tilenga well drilling project, as Uganda hopes to begin extracting its own oil in 2025. A 1.443-kilometre long heated pipeline from the shores of Lake Albert in Uganda to the port of Tanga in Tanzania were jointly developed by French TotalEnergies and the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) along with Ugandan and Tanzanian state oil companies. While TotalEnergies and Ugandan authorities state that the vast majority of the project affected persons (PAPs) have been adequately compensated for the loss of their land, houses, fields and crops and improved their lives, some of the NGOs are claiming PAPs agreed to proposed compensations out of fear. Some that did not agree to sign have been taken to court by Ugandan government. Mixed results – Local residents like Afoyocan say they have not all experienced the arrival of the