Chad Cameroon Pipeline Essay

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The Chad-Cameroon Pipeline project is a $3.7 billion project that consists of 300+ oil wells which are expected to produce one billion barrels of oil over the span of 25 years. This project funded by World Bank was created with the intent to put a 640 mile underground pipeline between Chad through Cameroon and the over to an offshore export loading facility. Because Chad is a land locked, desert country in Northern Africa, it is one of the poorest countries in the world. The revenue coming from the pipeline was an economic solution to help decrease the poverty and poor economic conditions of Chad. Due to civil war in Chad, the project had a negative impact. Some of the revenue coming from the pipeline was used for weapons. Other than the purchase of weapons, a town called Kribi has been negatively impacted. Kribi lies in Cameroon, just outside of the oil export terminal. Due to the oil terminal, there have been reports of damaged coastal reefs, and underwater habitat due to construction. This is widely negative because in Kribi that majority of income for the locals is dependent on fishing. …show more content…

If proper supervision of the construction of the export terminal had occurred, the likeliness of oil leaks, damaged coastal reefs and damaged underwater habitats, could have been greatly avoided or diminished. As far as the Chad government using $4 million of the $25 million dollars for weapons, because of civil unrest, there is not much that the World Bank could have done about it. Civil unrest was happening in Chad as it was, and the World Bank still decided to go ahead and fund the pipeline. So the negative impact is of no fault of the World Bank, other than the idea that they should have not be funding the pipeline at