Onshore
oilfields from the Soviet era, south of Baku. The coastline
here is littered with rusting derricks and pools of oil.
The growth area, that will feed the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan
pipeline, is offshore. [Yury Urbansky/ CEE Bankwatch Network
News from
other organisations
May
27, 2004
Ongoing
BTC construction abuses provoke fresh complaint to project
backer
Association Green Alternative
May
5, 2004
New
BTC monitoring report throws light on Georgia's forgotten
pipeline people
Association Green Alternative, CEE Bankwatch Network and
Georgia Young Lawyers Association
April 19, 2004
Georgian
campaigner wins environmental "Nobel Prize"
Association
Green Alternative, CEE Bankwatch Network
16th
March 2004
Georgians
demand action to save their homes from oil pipeline
- Official complaint to IFC reveals shocking BTC negligence
CEE Bankwatch Network
25th
February 2004
NGOs
cross London Rising Tide picket line to attend BP greenwash
meeting
London Rising Tide
15th
February 2004
BP
accused of cover-up in pipeline deal
Sunday
Times article
6th
February 2004
BTC
workers outraged by oil company's violations. Promised highest
standards are sorely lacking in Georgia
Association
Green Alternative + Georgian Trade Union Amalgation
3rd
February 2004
Royal
Bank of Scotland to fund controversial oil pipeline
WWF-UK
27th
January 2004
London
Rising Tide disrupts Caspian oil and gas conference
London Rising Tide
11th
November 2003
WWF
urges commercial banks not to fund controversial pipeline
10th
November 2003
WWF
alarmed at World Bank impotence on BTC pipeline decision
24th October 2003
People’s
pipeline in Azerbaijan a sham - New report on EBRD/IFC
public consultation process
CEE
Bankwatch Network
22nd October 2003
Azerbaijan:
Government Launches Crackdown
Human
Rights Watch
8th October 2003
Oil
pipeline will exacerbate corruption in Azerbaijan
Committee
of Oil Industry Workers’ Rights Protection / CEE Bankwatch
Network
1st October 2003
Leaked
Documents Reveal World Bank Set to Threaten Pillar of Georgia's
Economy
Friends of the Earth US
28th August 2003
Protesters
occupy Export Credit Guarantees Department offices
Rising Tide UK
18th August 2003
Bank
consultation meetings criticised
Green Alternative / CEE
Bankwatch Network
17th
July 2003
Welsh
Assembly members oppose pipeline public funding
Members' Statement of Opinion
17th
July 2003
Georgian
protest prevents work on BP oil pipeline
Rosbalt / Alexanders
11th July 2003
Caucasus
NGO Confederation urges moratorium on BTC
Caucasus NGO Confederation
/ Helsinki Citizens' Assembly Azerbaijan National Committee
10th July 2003
AMEC Blockaded over Baku Pipeline Construction
Earth First! / Rising Tide
5th July 2003
Protest
at the British Museum over BP sponsorship
London Rising Tide
4th July 2003
European
Commission admits pipeline creates accession issues for
Turkey
Jean Lambert MEP
18th June 2003
New form of 'best practice' jeopardises land users' rights
in Georgia
Association Green Alternative
/ CEE Bankwatch Network / Oxfam / Georgia Young Lawyers
Association
20th May 2003
Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan
pipeline project puts human rights on the line
Amnesty International
25th March 2003
Protest
at EBRD Tbilisi office
Association "Green Alternative"
/ Movement for a Dignified Future / Helsinki Citizens' Committee
of Georgia / Environment and Animals Rights Protection Union
"Lobo" / Institute for MultiTrack Diplomacy / CEE Bankwatch
Network
Dec '02 - Mar '03
Direct
actions in Britain against Baku Ceyhan pipeline,
Rising Tide UK
