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    • Press-Releases
    15.04.2011 hot topic icon

    BTC under fire for violating human rights obligations and pipeline integrity issues

    The UK government ruled earlier this month that the BP-led Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) Company consortium is breaking international rules governing the human rights responsibilities of multinational companies in its operations

    • Press-Releases
    11.10.2005 hot topic icon

    BTC pipeline's poverty reduction credentials rubbished by new report

    A new report out today reveals the real impacts of BP’s Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline and catalogues the Georgian people's unfulfilled hopes of increased welfare and development arising from BP’s billion dollar project, hopes

    • Press-Releases
    27.07.2004 hot topic icon

    Baku-Ceyhan Pipeline Stopped as BP Caught Violating Georgian Law

    British oil giant BP has been forced to stop work on the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline after breaching Georgian national law, campaigners revealed today. The Georgian government suspended work on BTC following BP's decision to start construction

    • Statements
    05.05.2004 hot topic icon

    New BTC monitoring report throws light on Georgia's forgotten pipeline people

    A new report from Georgian non-governmental organizations reveals that the construction of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline continues to impose serious social and environmental impacts on local communities

    • Press-Releases
    19.04.2004 hot topic icon

    Georgian campaigner wins environmental "Nobel Prize"

    Manana Kochladze, founder of Georgian CEE Bankwatch member group Association Green Alternative, will today be awarded the prestigious Goldman Prize in recognition of her tireless campaign work on the controversial Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline project

    • Statements
    06.02.2004 hot topic icon

    BTC workers outraged by oil company's violations. Promised highest standards are sorely lacking in Georgia

    Tbilisi, Georgia – Georgian workers on the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline (BTC) are having their rights violated by the BTC Company, the BP led consortium in charge of the project. Trade unionists working on the pipeline's Georgian section

    • Press-Releases
    11.11.2003 hot topic icon

    EBRD&'s copycat BTC decision leaves campaigners more determined than ever

    Today’s decision by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to grant a USD 250 million loan for BP’s controversial Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline has come as no surprise to environmental campaigners

    • Statements
    18.08.2003 hot topic icon

    Political comfort for all. As crunch time approaches for the Baku-Ceyhan pipeline, local groups demand an end to business as usual

    Georgian environment group Green Alternative has today written to the executive directors of both the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the International Finance Corporation to express the group's misgivings

    • Statements
    13.06.2003 hot topic icon

    World Bank and EBRD Decisions in the Pipeline as Baku-Cehyan Disclosure Period Begins

    Ever since British Petroleum CEO Sir John Browne declared that the controversial Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline would be viable only "if 'free money' is offered by governments to build the line", environmental groups

    • Statements
    12.01.2003 hot topic icon

    BP report ignores alternatives, says environmental group

    The Central and East European Bankwatch Network today released a report criticising BP for inadequately studying the environmental and social effects of the planned Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline

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