'Our first meeting with Total they said, ‘Your standard of living will be elevated, you will no longer be poor.' Now with the oil project starting, we are landless and are the poorest in the country.' — A 48-year-old woman supporting seven children, whose land was acquired for the Tilenga oil project, March 2023 The East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) is one of the most significant fossil fuel infrastructure projects currently under development globally, connecting the Tilenga and Kingfisher oilfields in western Uganda with the port of Tanga in eastern Tanzania.

https://www.hrw.org/report/2023/07/10/our-trust-broken/loss-land-and-livelihoods-oil-development-uganda

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