A seven-month investigation reveals a litany of abuses by the Kingfisher oil project operated by the Chinese National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) in Uganda, making local residents significantly worse off. The article calls for banks and insurance companies to publicly announce their refusal to support further development of the project.
Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.It’s time for the banks and insurance companies that are considering support for Kingfisher, and related oil and gas projects, to publicly announce that they will play no part in their further development. Uganda found “black gold”.
Kingfisher has been, and continues to be, the site of forced evictions; inadequate or non-existent compensation for land and other assets; coercion and intimidation in the land acquisition process; reduced standards of living and impoverishment; labour rights violations and sexual and gender-based violence.
Joseph Mugisha from the village of Nzunsu B said that CNOOC agents threatened that he would lose everything if he persisted in his refusal to sign a “voluntary” compensation agreement for his land: “I was not happy and didn’t want to sign at the beginning. But told me that if I didn’t sign, the land would be taken freely.”
The development of the Kingfisher project has also led to the degradation of the natural environment, including land, water and air pollution. Fisherfolk report seeing oil slicks and dead fish in the lake, and a drastic reduction in fish in the Kingfisher area. Kwikiriza had documented the environmental devastation and human rights violations suffered by his community from the Kingfisher project. He is just one of many
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