Uganda detains 21 people protesting oil project

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By Jimisayo Opanuga

26 August 2024 | 2:40 p.m.

Ugandan constabulary arrested 21 environmentalists successful the capital, Kampala, connected Monday arsenic they protested a arguable multi-billion-dollar lipid improvement scheme, their lawyer said. The East African Crude Oil Pipeline Project (EACOP), headed by French lipid elephantine TotalEnergies, involves drilling for lipid successful Uganda and sending the crude to Tanzania for export. Environmental groups accidental the…

The East African Crude Oil Pipeline Project (EACOP), headed by French lipid elephantine TotalEnergies, involves drilling for lipid successful Uganda and sending the crude to Tanzania for export.

Environmental groups accidental the task is having dire consequences for section communities and the situation arsenic drilling is taking spot successful Murchison Falls National Park, the largest protected country successful Uganda.

“There are 21 radical arrested, they included 19 males and 2 females,” said Samuel Wanda, 1 of the defence lawyers.

The radical had attempted to march connected parliament and the Chinese embassy.

Eight of those detained would beryllium straight impacted by the TotalEnergies project, Wanda said.

He said the protesters were being held astatine Kampala’s cardinal constabulary presumption but officers were yet to item the charges.

In a petition seen by AFP, the protesters issued an “urgent entreaty against the continued violations of quality and biology rights by the EACOP project”.

The petition said the lipid strategy is simply a “threat to Uganda’s section economies” and has antagonistic “social and taste impacts”.

TotalEnergies and the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) are drilling successful Lake Albert, which has an estimated 6.5 cardinal barrels of crude, including astir 1.4 cardinal barrels that are presently considered recoverable.

The crude volition beryllium shipped done a 1,443-kilometre (900-mile) heated pipeline from the oilfields successful northwestern Uganda to Tanzania’s Indian Ocean larboard of Tanga.

TotalEnergies has a 62-percent involvement successful the pipeline, with Ugandan and Tanzanian state-owned lipid companies holding 15 percent each and CNOOC 8 percent.

Uganda’s archetypal lipid is expected to travel successful 2025 — astir 2 decades aft the reserves were discovered — and the task has been hailed by President Yoweri Museveni arsenic an economical boon for the landlocked state wherever galore unrecorded successful poverty.

TotalEnergies says those displaced by the task person been reasonably compensated and measures person been taken to support the environment.

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