East Africa: Pipelines

(asked on 19th April 2021) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the (a) environmental sustainability, (b) security risks and (c) geopolitical effect of the proposed East African Crude Oil Pipeline; and whether the Government has provided any support to that project.


Answered by
James Duddridge Portrait
James Duddridge
This question was answered on 22nd April 2021

The UK is not directly involved in the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) project. The UK has previously engaged with the Governments of Uganda and Tanzania in support of the project and provided assistance to UK companies bidding for commercial contracts related to the EACOP, but this ceased when the announcement of our fossil fuel policy change was made in 2020.

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