How will a major oil project change East Africa? | The Stream
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- Government leaders in Uganda and Tanzania say a rapidly developing oil drilling and cross-border pipeline programme will lift people’s living standards across the region.
But some residents living near the project sites say they have so far seen little benefit, while environmental groups say the initiative could devastate sensitive lands and undermine efforts to address the global climate emergency.
In January, Uganda's president Yoweri Museveni officially commissioned the start of drilling activity within the Chinese-operated Kingfisher oilfield, which lies on the south-eastern edge of Lake Albert. A second oilfield operated by French firm TotalEnergies is also being developed to the north of Lake Albert, within the Murchison Falls National Park. Uganda hopes to commercially pump oil for export by April 2025.
Crude from the oilfields will be carried to an Indian Ocean port in Tanzania via the East African Crude Oil Pipeline, which has been granted construction permits and is due for completion in 2025. Uganda's government says money from the joint venture will be used to improve schools, roads, and hospitals, but some people displaced from land near the oilfields and the path of the 897-mile pipeline say they have been given only meagre payments. Others say they have not been paid at all. Residents near the pipeline route in Tanzania say they have been forced by the government to accept compensation to leave their land and homes.
The Ugandan and Tanzanian governments say they have acted lawfully and with sensitivity in the development of what will be the world’s longest electrically-heated pipeline, but environmentalists are concerned about the impact that oil exploitation and construction activity will have on sensitive wildlife habitats, forests, and freshwater sources. They say tapping into crude oil is a major blow to efforts aimed at limiting global carbon emissions.
Tanzania's energy minister told the New York Times that criticism of the oil project is "a symbol of global hypocrisy" and that rich Global North countries can exploit hydrocarbons without facing the same degree of international censure.
In the first of three episodes of The Stream dedicated to the climate emergency, we’ll look at what the East Africa oil initiative means for the environment and communities in Uganda and Tanzania.
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In the long run the pipeline will benefit the people of Uganda and Tanzania.... I fully support the project
Uganda is going to benefit a lot from the EACOP. I support it 100%
Somalia has oil too..
@@Omar355soma will somalia become the new kuwait or the next dubai???
@@briopalumpus8676 yes, only if Somalis united..
Oil, in other words, is a natural resource, and a blessing from God will change this part of Africa, when and only when the resources are used to insure the wellbeing of the principles, in other words, human beings of that region of Africa. It is in people's practical lives oil and so on find their pertinence.
I think we need to have an independent interview in which a set of questions should be answered providing facts and statistics with references - definitely not done by Al Jazeera.
Does Patience even know where Lake Victoria is located vis a vis the pipeline? How dare she say that fishing on the lake has been affected!
if there is an oil spill, it'll be disaster for the area. perhaps that's what she's referring to.
@@orangemoonglows2692 No. She says the pipeline has already affected fishing on Lake Victoria. And my question to her is: how? Construction has not yet started. Even the people whose land is being acquired are no where near Lake Victoria! So how are the fishercommunity on the lake affected?
Oil is curse other than blessing in Africa...I hope things goes well when we find oil in our country Somalia 🇸🇴 fingers crossed
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As long as there value added it will be good for the country
That man made a fantastic point regarding the usage of oil. The continent of Africa was ravaged by colonialism, and I think asking Sovereign Nations in Africa not to make use of their natural resources when western countries are the greatest consumers and therefore the biggest contributors to climate change shows that colonial attitudes still exist !!
Enviro activists are less concerned with "poverty conservation than enviro conservation"
Nabukalu Nabukalu Nabukalu you really luck facts.
I believe you knows well all the facts but it’s her job to keep the opposition standing
That gal is looking for kawogo thats all, she is so ignorant that I got ashamed, Aljazeera has disrespected the ED of Petroleum Authority Uganda for inviting him to a place where a young gal who knows nothing and has no sensible argument is the one representing Aljazeera's False Propaganda
No body tells this BS to Russia or Saudi Arabia, but once a project pops up in Africa, everybody remebers the environment. Hypocricy😂
its the european enviroment soil back yard colony
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So far we are very appreciative to the government of Uganda as the national content policy has benefited alot as unskilled workers are strictly from the Albertine region and in additional to nationals share the semi skilled and nationals.
Challenge is people sit in Kampala and give outpared views with out justifications.
But honestly Al Jazeera, you invite the ED of Petrolium Authority of Uganda and do not give him even 5 minutes to speak out of 25 minutes? What non-sense is that?
Refineries are what they need..
Patience patience don't mix politics with development.
Patience is talking nonsense
Patience kindly give statistics with figures other than generalising numbers??.
Patience has clearly no time to read the documents, oil agreements, reports on community transformation and facts on the ground. She is depending on western media and trumped up generalities. A Ugandan like her needs to appreciate that the project will reduce poverty and improve lives greatly, protect forests as gas costs go down. The transparency with Oil Agreements, displayed by Uganda is second to none around the world.
With the leadership we have currently Uganda can never benefit from this project,
No one should just complain about the two countries having a low percentage share, because none of those people complaining has capacity to fund the project. The decisions on share holding are clearly outlined and explained in the terms of contract. Patience doesn't know what she is talking about but there confused speaking anyhowly, we cant blame her
If the locals don’t have oil and gas experience how are the oil companies suppose to employe them at a high percentage?
A two weeks course is enough for most low end construction jobs. They can also have someone to teach them on site which is normal for constructionjobs.
@@TheArchevil oil and gas jobs
@@njm543 Yes, they have functions for unschooled people too. It's still manual labor. What's more important is whether or not the higher ups will violate safety regulations. The more dangerous a job is, the more companies tend to skim on safety. That's the most common issue with projects like these.
we have people who dont know the map of uganda telling the location of the pipeline
Uganda's crude oil reserves are estimated at 1.4 billion barrels recoverable.
1.4 billion ÷ 20 million barrels the U.S. burns each day = 70 day supply.
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A man who supported and fought in the disastrous Iraq war and has come out to regret is also commenting on project he has very little information about, That girl is so ignorant I have no understanding why they could bring her on here.
that Ugandan activist was served food she couldn't handle
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If it didn't changed Nigeria...why wil it change East Africa?
Nigeria is not a country
All boils down to governance, it never changed Nigeria because of corrupt governments, plain & simple.
Because East Africa is under different leadership.
the first sign of foolishness is when an African youth is arguing in support of reducing carbon emission without considering that Africa has not contributed 5% to global warning but contributes 95% of global jobless population. job first my sister.
This is confusing to some of us, east africans...Kenyan. is Uganda saying exporting to Kenya for example or is Uganda basing its economic evaluations on economics of the middle east?
Patience talks about Lake victoria which is way distant from the project site. I support Uganda's opposition but I won't back them up against the EACOP project.
Ugandans need to have their enough share
We need to know what the Ugandan Environmental Activists studied, how much knowledge do they have in matters concerning the designs of that pipeline, do they have expertise in the science behind the worst case scenarios that project was designed for. Its not a matter of speaking because they have to speak even when they dont know things
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Obsess about oil dollars n forget the world is being weaned off oil , I don’t understand why some countries adopt technologies so late for so long it was known there was oil in these area yet they decided to do this late
The project is good and marvelous but due to corruption, bribery and nepotism in Uganda will cripple the project and turn into a curse.
The project is doomed to failure if the African countries are minority stakeholders with 30%; even Nigeria has a 60% stake in it oil industry, and has failed to benefit from the resource. Oil spillage, corrupt international oil companies and the greedy political and military elites have squared the oil wealth.
Patience is just igignorant
Owen fallsdam electric project has been in Uganda for pver 50yrs but whers does the money Go? Oil money is for Karuhanga and his cousin M7 not for Uganda.
This program was sponsored by the western countries, but for your own information we shall continue with the project at all cost. You may as well continue to fabricate environmental constraints.
They should first tell Saudi Arabia and Russia to reduce production...😅
Major Oil 🎉factory in say, Kenya would definitely fit into the Silk Road map of china’s new One Road… for one continent sufficiency.
They will bring issues of environment when the development is coming from Africa.
We are tired of their nonsense.
this gal patience is complete nonsense
The world Shouls listen to this girl. She is realy Maama Uganda and a sister to the world.
Patience needs to get her facts right. Ellison and Ernest made a more credible case. You can’t have two sets of rules…one for ‘poor’ African countries and another for developed nations who have caused the most harm to the environment and continue to do so, then have the audacity to claim to be ‘green climate champions’
Which country does this girl Patience come from.. I don't think she's Ugandan, she's completely talking nonsense out of ignorance.
AJ does not like that project at all
This Patience is very dull
As fossil fuels are being phased out, why should this be an exciting project? Renewable energy is the trend, so it would be unwise to go against it, unless there are very concrete plans for this project to be really viable.
You do know plastics are made from oil, lots of pharmaceuticals, jet fuel (I don’t think we will have electric planes), ships need fuel too, tanks, fighter jets, asphalt on road surfaces is also made using oil as an ingredient
Patience is entirely ignorant of the project she is talking of things she lacks knowledge of.
LOL, what a mess.
Unrelated picture is in bad taste
Let's hope poverty gets better.
Let’s hope gun murders and terrorism by armed angry men in Texas and the USA end.
The girl has a point african temp is already high so adding more c02 emission on its atmosphre will worsen the situation there, thats just a short term oil production and many people are displace future are renewable energy and fossil fuel will be the thing in the past only the rich foreign corp will benefit there
Labukalu ur a bad person hw can you say the project that will employ many Africans will only benefit rich people
Nabukalu*
Why are all guys defending thi dead project are all related to M7? Answer please.
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Patients is incredibly informed and is correct in saying that investment in renewable energy is the best way forward, for over one hundred years knowledge about the damage that fossil fuel causes, remember that we only have one world, once that is gone then there is not another one.