Mongabay Series:by on 19 April 2021The Ugandan and Tanzanian governments have signed agreements with French oil major Total and China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) to build a 1,400-kilometer (900-mile) pipeline from Uganda’s Murchison Falls National Park to the Tanzanian port of Tanga on the Indian Ocean. The pipeline’s critics say 2,000 square kilometers (770 square miles) of protected areas will be impacted and 12,000 families displaced from their land.If completed, the $3.5 billion pipeline will transport heavy crude from more than 130 wells inside Uganda’s largest national...…Mongabay Series:by on 19 April 2021The Ugandan and Tanzanian governments have signed agreements with French oil major Total and China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) to build a 1,400-kilometer (900-mile) pipeline from Uganda’s Murchison Falls National Park to the Tanzanian port of Tanga on the Indian Ocean. The pipeline’s critics say 2,000 square kilometers (770 square miles) of protected areas will be impacted and 12,000 families displaced from their land.If completed, the $3.5 billion pipeline will transport heavy crude from more than 130 wells inside Uganda’s largest national...WW…

Mongabay Series: ,by on 12 February 2021Bahamas Petroleum Company’s  to drill for offshore oil near the Florida coast hit a wall after its exploratory well did not find commercially viable reserves.Environmentalists in the Bahamas and the U.S. staunchly opposed the offshore drilling they say threatens the fragile marine ecosystem. The Perseverance #1 well is located 240 kilometers (150 miles) from the coast of Florida and 146 km (91 mi) from the nearest Bahamian island of Andros.The Stena IceMAX drillship started drilling on Dec. 20. By Feb. 7 it had plumbed depths of 3,900 meters...…Mongabay Series: ,by on 12 February 2021Bahamas Petroleum Company’s  to drill for offshore oil near the Florida coast hit a wall after its exploratory well did not find commercially viable reserves.Environmentalists in the Bahamas and the U.S. staunchly opposed the offshore drilling they say threatens the fragile marine ecosystem. The Perseverance #1 well is located 240 kilometers (150 miles) from the coast of Florida and 146 km (91 mi) from the nearest Bahamian island of Andros.The Stena IceMAX drillship started drilling on Dec. 20. By Feb. 7 it had plumbed depths of 3,900 meters...WW…