Omar Elmawi

The European Parliament has passed an emergency resolution to stop the ongoing works on Uganda-Tanzania oil project citing human rights violations and environmental threats. Total East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) would be the largest heated oil pipeline in the world, expected to start producing in 2025 and to reach a cumulative plateau production of 230,000 barrels per day. More than one hundred thousand families and farmers are already being displaced from their lands, and critics say if completed the pipeline would generate over 34 million tons of CO2 emissions every year, and threaten protected wildlife. The Parliament expresses grave…