Total’s Uganda Oil Project Underpaid Households in Its Path, HRW Says
- Inadequate compensation left residents indebted, without land
- $4 billion pipeline planned to transport oil for export
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Residents displaced by the construction of TotalEnergies SE’s $4-billion pipeline project in Uganda have been inadequately compensated and had their lives disrupted, according to a Human Rights Watch report.
The 897-mile East African Crude Oil Pipeline planned to run from Uganda to the coast of Tanzania will be capable of pumping up to 246,000 barrels a day when complete — a potential level of output bigger than some African OPEC members. Uganda President Yoweri Museveni has backed the project, which has faced criticism from politicians in the European Union over human rights and environmental concerns.