Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-01-20-Speech-4-151"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-01-20"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Human rights2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000120.9.4-151"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-01-20-Speech-4-1522
lpv:speaker	lp:Nelly Maes2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Development and Cooperation (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (1999-09-14--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Volksunie (1999-07-20--2002-01-07)3 vice-chair; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2002-01-07)3 member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Slovak Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-19--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, it is actually nothing short of a miracle that this pipeline is under discussion at all today in this Parliament because so much lobbying has gone into preventing its discussion. We are pleased that we can discuss it today. This is a good start. Indeed, the pipeline in question is the very controversial oil pipeline between Chad and Cameroon, two countries which score very badly in terms of human rights, the fight against poverty and legal certainty. The example of Ogoniland springs to mind if we think what harmful consequences the installation of an oil pipeline can have if the right precautions are not taken and the right guarantees not given. It is even so bad that the oil pipeline is already casting its shadow forward, because those who dare criticise it in the country itself are quite simply thrown into prison in Chad. If this, now, is the way in which a constitutional state deals with environmental protest, one dreads to think what would happen in the case of more serious assaults when a corrupt regime is profiting from the existence of such a pipeline. We would therefore urge the European Investment Bank not to ape whatever the World Bank decides, because the World Bank is lobbying intensely so that it can support this pipeline and because we know that the people, the only representatives of civil society who were invited to be present at a protest meeting in America, were, in fact, lobbyists. We are, therefore, highly concerned that the European Members who sit as Members on the Board of the World Bank will not have sufficient time to elucidate a precise position on this matter, simply because there is so little objective information available. That is why I ask you, Commissioner, to ensure that the European Investment Bank does not help support this pipeline, unless all social and environmental precautions have actually been taken."@en1

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