Hi John, my name is Zaki, and I'm writing to you with an important update regarding 350's work on the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP):
Climate activists in East Africa who are opposing EACOP are facing an extreme escalation in harassment.
In the past few weeks, multiple Tanzanian and Ugandan activists and community members have been bullied, arrested, and interrogated for trying to stop this carbon bomb.
But the stakes are too high to let this intimidation stop us from calling for an end to EACOP. Because if built, EACOP would be the world's largest heated crude oil pipeline — burning six billion barrels of oil and generating over 34 million extra tons of carbon emissions each year.1 Its disastrous climate impact would be felt all over the world.
As a global climate justice organization, 350.org is committed to fighting fossil fuel extraction all over the world. Our staff team in Africa has spent years working with grassroots groups to stop the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP). The demand is clear: a complete stop to the destructive EACOP project.
Instead of fossil fuel expansion and natural disasters, East African communities are ready for restorative justice, reparations, and democratized renewable energy systems.
But when they stand up to demand a better future, they are met with suppression.
It's infuriating. This destructive pipeline project is planned to rip right through the heart of East Africa, where it would not only have a devastating effect on the climate, but also pose a severe threat to some of the world's most important biodiversity hotspots, and risk contaminating the Lake Victoria basin. An oil spill here would be catastrophic for over 40 million people who depend on this lake.
It's not too late to stop this destruction.
The campaign to stop EACOP is constantly escalating the pressure on supporters and financiers of the pipeline. So far, 27 major banks and 29 major (re)insurers have ruled out or retracted their support.2
The fossil fuel industry and their political allies are desperately fighting back. But we can't be silenced. We will continue doing everything we can to stop the EACOP pipeline, but we can't do it without you, John.
We're up against powerful oil corporations, but while they have the money, we have the people — and together, we can win.
Thank you for being a part of this global fight,
Zaki Mamdoo
Stop EACOP Campaign Coordinator
350.org
1 - #STOPEACOP
2 - #STOPEACOP
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