Mitigation is not enough for the East African Crude Oil Pipeline; threats to several No Go Areas warrant a full stop to the project
A recent article by Al Jazeera highlights the backwards thinking around the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), which would pose serious threats to several highly biodiverse and critical ecosystems, including at least four of the Banks and Biodiversity No Go Areas. The project’s key developers, Total Energies and the China National Offshore Oil Corporation, claim to be committed to minimizing the pipeline’s environmental impacts, but turn a blind eye to the fact that EACOP should have been prohibited from the start, by virtue of its location.