Financing delays blamed on protests will not derail crude project, says minister at COP climate summit
The world’s longest heated oil pipeline is “still viable” and will be operational in the next three years despite financing delays blamed on activists’ protests, according to a Ugandan minister who defended the country’s development of fossil fuels. “The east African crude oil pipeline is ongoing,” Uganda’s energy minister Ruth Nankabirwa told the Financial Times at the COP29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan. “We have invested a lot of money in exploring exploration in critical infrastructure.
The pipeline will cross nature reserves along the basin of Lake Victoria, Africa’s largest, while displacing households and wildlife across Uganda and Tanzania, say activists who are sceptical the projects will benefit local communities. Several organisations have held regular protests against the project in defiance of a government known for stifling political free speech and dissent.
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