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The World Bank's board of directors recently approved an investment guarantee for the $590 million West Africa gas pipeline in November, despite strong civil society resistance. The pipeline will transport natural gas from the Western Niger Delta area of Nigeria, to Togo, Benin and Ghana. After funding the initial feasibility studies for the pipeline in 1992, the Bank has now provided a $125 million investment guarantee to encourage private investors to come up with the remaining $465 million. Friends of the Earth Nigeria charge that the pipeline "is being implemented in total disregard of environmental and livelihood concerns of Nigerian communities." This text may be freely used providing the source is credited. This page is: <http://brettonwoodsproject.org/art.shtml?x=107968> Published: 26 January 2005 , last edited: 27 May 2010 Viewings since posted: 4361 |
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