The project will 'bring mayhem to human settlements and wildlife along the pipeline's path,' said one climate expert.
Thursday by a climate research firm reveals environmental assessments used to gain approval for the East African Crude Oil Pipeline in Uganda and Tanzania failed to fully consider the massive amount of fossil fuel emissions that will result from the project.
In its new analysis, the Climate Accountability Institute looked at expected emissions from tanker transport from Port Tanga in Tanzania through the Suez Canal to Rotterdam , refining of the waxy crude oil into petroleum products, and end-use consumption of the carbon fuels,” andthat EACOP will be directly linked to 379 million tonnes of carbon emissions — more than 25 times the current annual emissions of Uganda and Tanzania.
“It is time for TotalEnergies to abandon the monstrous EACOP that promises to worsen the climate crisis, waste billions of dollars that could be used for good, [and] bring mayhem to human settlements and wildlife along the pipeline’s path,” Heede toldThe earlier analysis that was accepted by the host governments detailed just 1.8% of the project’s total emissions.
Omar Elmawi, coordinator for the Stop EACOP campaign. “We must continue to push for a stop to this and other such projects.”that “only an urgent system-wide transformation can avoid an accelerating climate disaster” and that continuing to extract fossil fuels will put the planet on a pathway to grow 2.8°C hotter by the end of century.EACOP: A Crude Reality