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Africa-Press<\/a> – South-Africa<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Cape Town – A visual demonstration was held outside the Standard Bank Thibault Square branch in Cape Town\u2019s CBD over the weekend, in protest against the bank\u2019s potential financial backing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP).<\/p>\n

Extinction Rebellion (XR) Cape Town participated in the international #StopEACOP campaign on Saturday.<\/p>\n

EACOP is a 1 445km pipeline that will transport crude oil from Kabale, Uganda, to the Chongoleani peninsula near Tanga port in Tanzania.<\/p>\n

Major banks and financial institutions are funding the $3.5 billion project (about R53.7bn). The project will be the longest electrically heated pipeline in the world.<\/p>\n

350 Africa.org SA team leader Glen Tyler-Davies joined the demonstration.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s our responsibility as South Africans to make sure that our finance organisations like Standard Bank don\u2019t finance these projects. It\u2019s great that they want to fund development in Africa, but there are better ways to do development. There are ways that can actually help people on the ground in Africa, as opposed to this pipeline that is just going to take Africa\u2019s wealth, the oil, and ship it out to other areas,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

XR protesters dressed in all-black garb to symbolise the death, destruction and displacement of communities and wildlife that will come with construction of the pipeline.<\/p>\n

Judy Scott-Goldman from Simon\u2019s Town said: \u201cStandard Bank has signed the UN Principles for Responsible Banking, and SA is a signatory to the Paris Climate Agreement, which means that we are trying to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees centigrade, and so we shouldn\u2019t be funding new oil projects, because that project will produce so many tons of carbon dioxide that we can’t afford to add to the atmosphere.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anne Duncan from Clovelly said: \u201cThis pipeline is going to devastate the livelihoods and the lives of so many ordinary farmers, fishermen and fisherwomen in East Africa, as well as devastating the incredibly precious and beautiful wildlife. There are so few areas left in the world where wildlife can roam, and this pipeline will cut into migration routes. There\u2019s going to be so much loss of life, and we don\u2019t need it. We are on a path to devastation, and this investment is just going to increase that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cape Argus<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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