Four Ugandan farmers file a case in the High Court in London against the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), a project under construction in Uganda and Tanzania, according to human rights and media reports. The farmers’ complaint is connected to the pipeline’s UK-registered company, EACOP Ltd, which is financing and associated with the project led by TotalEnergies. The lawsuit seeks to require EACOP Ltd to comply with Ugandan constitutional, environmental and climate laws, with the plaintiffs arguing that those rules should apply despite the company’s registration in the United Kingdom. The project is described as a 1,443-kilometer (897-mile) pipeline intended to connect Uganda’s Tilenga and Kingfisher oil fields to a route in Tanzania. The farmers’ action is presented as a crowdfunded effort and is announced in connection with a press conference. The sources do not report the legal outcome, but they outline the central claim: that a UK-registered entity should be held to enforceable obligations under Ugandan law relating to environmental impacts and climate commitments.
Ugandan farmers sue TotalEnergies-backed EACOP project in UK High Court
Four Ugandan farmers file a case in the High Court in London against the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), a project under construction in Uganda and Tanzania, according to human rights and med...
- Four Ugandan farmers file a lawsuit in the UK High Court in London over the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP).
- The case targets EACOP Ltd, described as the UK-registered company associated with the project.
- The farmers seek to apply Ugandan constitutional, environmental and climate laws to EACOP Ltd.
- The EACOP project is described as a 1,443-kilometer (897-mile) pipeline running from Uganda’s Tilenga and Kingfisher oil fields to Tanzania.
- TotalEnergies is reported as a lead company behind the pipeline project.
Four Ugandan farmers filed a case against the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) at the UK's High Court on Tuesday, seeking to have Ugandan constitutional, environmental and climate law applied to EACOP Ltd, the UK-registered company financing the project
1 hour agoFour Ugandan farmers have filed a lawsuit before the High Court in London, U.K., against a contentious oil pipeline under construction in Uganda and Tanzania, human rights group Avaaz announced at a press conference on July 7. The 1,443-kilometer (897-mile) East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) will stretch from the Tilenga and Kingfisher oil fields […]
8 hours agoCrowdfunded lawsuit filed at London’s High Court seeks to enforce Uganda’s laws against EACOP Ltd, the pipeline project's UK-registered company The post Ugandan farmers launch UK court case against East African oil pipeline appeared first on Climate Home News.
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