> > Communities in Cameroon affected by the World
> Bank-financed Chad-Cameroon
> > oil pipeline together with the Center for
> Environment and Development
> > (CED) / Friends of the Earth (FoE) Cameroon filed
> a claim (1) today with
> > the World Bank Inspection Panel. (2)
> >
> > The claimants charge that several World Bank
> policies are violated during
> > the ongoing construction of the pipeline, which
> traverses their villages,
> > lands and, in the case of the Bakola pygmy’
> communities, their traditional
> > hunting areas in the coastal rainforest. The claim
> includes cited
> > violations of World Bank policies on Natural
> Habitats, Indigenous Peoples,
> > Environmental Impact Assessment, Poverty
> Reduction, Public Disclosure and
> > Consultation and Project Supervision.
> >
> > The affected people complain of polluted water
> sources, loss of crops and
> > forest land, failure to compensate for negative
> impacts to the
> > communities, violation of labor rights, and health
> problems especially
> > HIV/AIDS- related to the influx of workers and job
> seekers in the
> > communities.
> >
> > "The World Bank touts the Chad-Cameroon oil
> pipeline as a model project
> > that will reduce poverty while compensating for
> environmental impacts. Our
> > new Inspection Panel claim demonstrates the
> failure of World Bank rhetoric
> > to match reality," said Samuel Nguiffo of
> CED/FoE-Cameroon.
> >
> > ExxonMobil is the pipeline project sponsor
> together with Chevron and
> > Petronas of Malaysia. The project is supported by
> the World Bank, US
> > Export-Import Bank, Coface of France, the European
> Investment Bank and a
> > consortium of banks led by Dutch ABN-Amro.
> >
> > Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) the
> world’s largest grassroots
> > environmental network is challenging the World
> Bank’s ongoing support of
> > fossil fuel and mining projects at the
> International Monetary Fund and
> > World Bank Annual Meetings this week in
> Washington. More than 150 civil
> > society organisations have endorsed an appeal
> initiated by FoEI calling
> > for an immediate phase-out of all financing for
> fossil fuel and mining
> > projects by international financial institutions.
> >
> > World Bank investments in the extractive
> industries have benefited large
> > multinational corporations but failed to help the
> poor, a violation of the
> > Bank’s mission of poverty alleviation and
> sustainable development.
> > Representatives of communities from Cameroon,
> Peru, Romania, Nigeria, and
> > Georgia who are directly affected by World Bank
> projects are in Washington
> > this week to challenge the World Bank’s ongoing
> support of fossil fuel and
> > mining projects.


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