A section of Chongoleani Community members and activists in the Tanga region staged a protest to express their dissatisfaction with the EACOP project. The community members marched to EACOP offices in Tanga Town to petition the Tanzania government to halt the construction of the project.
They claimed the project has devastating effects not only on the community but also on the environment.
The EACOP affected person however did not hand over their petition to the Tanga officer but were Directed to address their grievances to the EACOP headquarters in Dar es Salaam.
They are also calling on President Museveni and the Chinese to immediately stop the project
Eacop is a 1,443km crude export pipeline system that will be constructed to transport crude oil from Kabaale – Hoima District in Uganda to a maritime port facility on the Chongoleani peninsula Tanga in Tanzania.
It is being constructed by four partners including Total Energies which owns 62 percent shares, China National Offshore Oil Company (Cnooc) with 8 percent, and Ugandan and Tanzanian governments each with 15 percent shares.
The pipeline will pass through 10 districts of; Hoima, Kikuube, Kakumiro, Kyankwanzi, Mubende, Gomba, Sembabule, Lwengo, Rakai, and Kyotera; 27 Sub-counties, three Town Councils, and one hundred seventy-one (171) villages.
The pipeline will transport oil produced from Uganda’s Lake Albert oilfields to the port of Tanga in Tanzania, where the oil will then be sold to world markets.
