College students petition parliament over East African Crude Oil Pipeline
A bunch of scholars from Makerere College and Kyambogo College have marched to Parliament to petition the Home over the East African Crude Oil Pipeline Undertaking. The scholars say the undertaking will trigger devastating environmental challenges to residents who reside close to the oil drilling areas. The pipeline will transport oil produced from Uganda’s Lake Albert oilfields to the port of Tanga in Tanzania, the place the oil will then be offered to world markets. In November final 12 months, the East African Courtroom of Justice dismissed, with prices, a case during which environmental and human rights teams have been difficult the development of the pipeline.
