Environmental Groups Examine BTC Project

(Tbilisi, November 12, Civil Georgia) – Group of international environmental experts in Georgia examine Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline project?s possible impact on the region?s ecology, Georgian International Oil Corporation reports.
 
Experts from the World Bank and Netherlands Commission for Environmental Impact Assessment are also involved in the activity. The group will draft environmental impact assessment by the end of November.

In late October the UK-based and international environmental and human rights groups, such as Friends of the Earth, Platform and Corner House, expressed fear that the BTC project would severely damage the region’s fragile ecology.

The groups urged international agencies and governments not to finance the BP-led multi-billion dollar trans-Caspian oil pipeline.

The construction of the US-backed BTC pipeline launched last month. It will carry a million barrels a day of crude from Azerbaijan’s section of the Caspian Sea to Ceyhan in Turkey via Georgia to Western markets.

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