The path of the East African crude oil pipeline / Alex Tumuhimbise + Emily Holden

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🗓️ 23 November 2021

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Journalists Alex Tumuhimbise and Emily Holden on the article "No power to stop it’: optimism turns to frustration over east Africa pipeline" for The Guardian, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen asks, "aside from the way things are, what do we really have to complain about?" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/07/no-power-to-stop-it-optimism-turns-to-frustration-over-east-africa-pipeline

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0:00.0	The biggest thing.
0:01.0	The thing. Make it out down down. Make it turn. This This is hell and you know this is hell
0:37.0	This is not the media this is. And you know this is not the media because while the
0:46.4	establishment news media is reporting on the allegedly historic promises made
0:51.1	at the UN Climate Summit in Glasgow.
0:53.0	Today on This is Hell, we will be discussing with our guests
0:56.0	East Africa's economic development plan based on, you guessed it,
1:01.0	fossil fuels and the drilling for oil and environmentally sensitive areas.
1:04.6	More than 12,000 families will be displaced from their ancestral lands to make way for the pipeline.
1:10.4	They were promised to be fairly compensated for the land and many hoped this would change their lives for the good
1:16.2	However many of the people displaced have been waiting for their compensation for three years
1:21.1	What they were getting for their land as a pittance compared to its value.
1:25.6	Not that those displaced had much of a choice.
1:27.6	The agreement signed by the governments of Uganda and Tanzania with French oil
1:32.3	giant Total and China National Offshore Oil
1:35.0	Oil Corporation, which will also have an impact on the Democratic
1:39.1	Republic of Congo, allegedly promised fair compensation
1:41.8	and so much more that doesn't seem to be coming to
1:44.7	fruition and who knows maybe wasn't even in the final agreement.
1:48.3	The pipeline could be a threat to the entire region as it will cross the basin of Lake Victoria, Africa's largest lake, which is an essential
1:56.3	watershed for more than 40 million people and feeds into the Nile.
2:00.8	Yes, of course there have been protests, but Uganda insists those protests are
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