Corporate Social Responsibility Failures in the Oil Industry by Woolfson Charles;Beck Matthais;

Author:Woolfson, Charles;Beck, Matthais;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group

CHAPTER 4

BP’S Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline: The New Corporate Colonialism

James Marriott and Greg Muttitt

INTRODUCTION

In Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth Century, John McNeill summarizes the impact of oil explorations on native populations as follows:

The Niger Delta (in Nigeria) at the end of the century, like Tampico (in Mexico) at the beginning, became a zone of sacrifice. The Ogoni, like the Huastec and Totonac, lacked the power to resist the coalition of forces that created and maintained the twentieth century’s energy regime [1].

This book chapter has grown out of an international campaign to question the benefits of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline, a campaign that is driven by a desire to prevent a future “zone of sacrifice.” In December 2002, the organizations behind the campaign could claim some success when the oil corporation BP announced that there would be a six-month delay in the completion of the financing arrangements for the proposed $3.3 billion pipeline.

In this chapter we report on the contemporary struggle over the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan project. First, we present some of the background on the pipeline project, then we describe the situation at present in relation to the actual and potential impacts of the project. Finally, we assess BP’s efforts to cope with potential resistance to the pipeline project.

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