Video: Local voices behind international oil pipeline

In June 2011 FIELD and IIED (International Institute for Environment and Development) visited Azerbaijan and one of the biggest international oil and gas projects - the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline. The purpose of the visit was to find out about local people’s experience with the pipeline and potential conflicts arising from it.

Along the route of the pipeline, the companies owning it have established grievance and redress mechanisms that allow local people to complain about the negative effects of the pipeline.

IIED and FIELD tried to find out if and to what extent these mechanisms work for local people – in Azerbaijan and elsewhere.

FIELD and IIED work with local organisations to improve the accountability of transnational corporations.

At a length of 1,768 km the BTC pipeline runs from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean coast of Turkey.

A report summarising the research and making recommendations based on it will come out later this fall.

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