TOTAL Impact : The Human Rights, Environmental, and Financial Impacts of Total and Chevron’s Yadana Gas Project in Military-Ruled Burma (Myanmar)
A Report by EarthRights International, December 2009
Troubling evidence of such abuses are emerging associated with the transnational Shwe gas and oil transport pipelines from western Burma to China, currently entering the construction phase. The cross-country Shwe gas pipeline will transport natural gas from Burma’s Bay of Bengal to China, where it will provide electricity in Yunnan Province; the oil pipeline will transport non-Burmese oil acquired by China in Africa and the Middle East to Yunnan Province. These pipelines will far surpass the Yadana pipeline in physical length: The Shwe pipeline will cover approximately 2800 kilometers from western Burma to China, whereas the Yadana pipeline spans a mere 60 kilometers of onshore territory in Burma.
On September 10, 2009 EarthRights International (ERI) published almost 200 pages of new
research in two publications linking the oil giants Total S.A., Chevron Corporation, the Petroleum Authority of Thailand Exploration and Production Company Ltd. (PTTEP), and the Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise (MOGE) to forced labor, killings, high-level corruption,
and authoritarianism in connection to their Yadana natural gas pipeline in military-ruled Burma. The reports also document the flawed corporate social responsibility programs implemented by Total, the operator of the project, and reveal for the first time that the pipeline in Burma has generated more than US$7 billion dollars for the companies and the ruling State Peace and Development Council (SPDC).
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