Help Stop the Construction of an Oil Pipeline


Tell the World Bank and the Government of Georgia: "Public money should not be used to destroy the environment!"

Stop the Baku-Ceyhan oil pipeline from destroying the economically important and ecologically sensitive Borjomi Natural Preservation - the source of Borjomi bottled mineral water, which makes up 10 percent of Georgia's exports.

According to assessments by foreign and Georgian experts, the current proposed route for the Baku-Ceyhan oil pipeline greatly endangers the source of Borjomi Mineral Water - Georgia's most lucrative export.

Georgia's Minister of Environment, Nino Chkhobadze, initially rejected the proposed pipeline route through Borjomi and urged an alternative route. She was forced to change her original position after Georgian President Shevardnadze received a coercive letter from BP Azerbaijan Associate President David Woodward telling him to expedite the approval of the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment despite serious concerns related to the pipeline route.

The sinking of the Prestige tanker off the coast of Spain has reminded the world of the devastating impact of oil spills.

Support Georgian youth activists and tell the World Bank and the Government of Georgia that it is not too late to protect the Borjomi Natural Preservation!


click to view the BP letter

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