DEATH IN THE PIPELINE
DEATH IN THE PIPELINE
A pipeline is being built through Turkey and its neighbours
- so what's this got to do with me?
Directed by US foreign policy - built by BP - bankrolled by us. The British
government is giving BP £65 million of our tax money. Without this
money, the pipeline cannot exist.
Over the next 50 years, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Turkey will be the oil
industry's next “zone of sacrifice”....if all goes to plan:
Human Rights
The area around the pipeline will be run under special 'BP law'. In other
places such as Nigeria and Colombia, this has meant killings and 'disappearances'
by brutal paramilitaries, paid for by the host countries and us, through
public money and BP tax dodges & corruption, plus opportunities for
the UK to sell more arms.
Injustice
The pipeline passes through war zones. It will trash or result in the eviction
of Kurdish villages & farm land already under violent assault by the
Turkish state.
Local Impact
Local people have had no say. The host countries will receive little benefit.
BP would have no social or environmental responsibility eg. for leaks -
the pipelines are planned to run through earthquake zones. Oil will be
spilt by tankers and washed up on our shores. National parks and huge
mineral water sources will be sacrificed. Local and EU laws and protection,
both current and future, will be bypassed. All this with our cash.
BP has made its name through greenwash and scamming public money here and in other Western countries, through paying for death squads in Colombia, ensuring West Papua is Indonesia's next brutal 'East Timor' and all-round long-term murder of people & planet.
Because this is not an isolated case, because it is
not just BP..
There is no future and no sense in the oil industry. It cannot be reformed
- for the sake of all our tomorrows, it has to be confronted today.
read or download * the 2-sided A4 activist's briefing
download * the 2-sided A5 leaflet (pretty much as above)
past Manchester-area direct action:
BP garage blockaded - what happened: Indymedia 1, Indymedia
2, Earth
First! Action Update & Loombreaker
ERM occupied - what happened: Loombreaker, Earth
First! Action Update -- ERM-concerns
website
AMEC SPIE career's fair leafletted - what it was -- the
leaflet
BP stall in the CBI conference covered in blood - what happened: Indymedia, Loombreaker,
Earth First!
Action Update; the
resulting court case
RSK ENSR occupied - what happened: Loombreaker
-- read/download
* activist's briefing -- worker's leaflet
AMEC site graffitied - what happened: Indymedia
--FoE
background info on AMEC
AMEC Warrington blockaded - what happened: Indymedia
1, Indymedia
2 -- leaflet
(for news of direct actions elsewhere in Britain, check out Rising Tide)
| what you can do: - in Manchester, contact us to get involved in the campaign and actions. Read the Networking Newsletter or Manchester Indymedia for reports of actions & events - nationally, contact your local EF!or Rising Tide group, or set up your own group: if you need help with that, contact the Blatant Incitement Project. Subscribe to the Rising Tide email newsletter and the Earth First! Action Update |
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| future targets: Greasy Palms list of UK-based companies involved (& UK addresses): updated |
campaign links:
Baku-Ceyhan Campaign page & latest
campaign news
Rising Tide pages
(including the campaign book 'Some
Common Concerns')
FoE
pages
CEE Bankwatch
pages
ERM concerns - spoof website
Burning Planet: actions on Baku &
BP in London
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Oilwatch Niger Delta - background on Shell, Ogoni & Ijaw resistance to Shell, ChevronTexaco & TotalFinaElf ChevronTexaco Shell - old (S)hell site & current; our Shell leaflet - read or download* |
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| Exxon Texaco Occidental Petroleum - the U'wa struggle Esso taking things further - No New Oil climate change - Rising Tide ecological direct action - Earth First! |
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