A GIANT oil pipeline through the African jungle, which got the go-ahead last
week, could wreck the coastal ecology of Cameroon and put thousands of fishermen
out of work, claim British biologists. The economic value of the threatened
ecosystems dwarfs any likely oil revenues, they say.
The 1050-kilometre pipeline is designed to provide an oil export route to the
Atlantic for Chad, a landlocked country on the margins of the Sahara. Oil from
huge reserves found in Chad’s Doba oilfield will be piped to an offshore tanker
terminal at Kribi, Cameroon. Last week, despite strong opposition from
environmental groups, the…
