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Laudato Si' Movement - Africa

Some of the environmentalists campaigning against EACOP during the Friday, 26 July 2024 workshop at Franciscan Family Centre, Nairobi. Credit: ACI Africa

“Negative impacts outweigh the benefits”: Catholic Environmentalists in Africa on Uganda –Tanzania Crude Oil Pipeline

Jul 30, 2024

Catholic environmentalists in Africa under their umbrella body,  Laudato Si' Movement - Africa, are advocating for the halting of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline Project (EACOP).

Some of the environmentalists campaigning against EACOP during the Friday, 26 July 2024 workshop at Franciscan Family Centre, Nairobi. Credit: ACI Africa

Africa’s Laudato Si’ Movement Creating Awareness on Dangers of Fossil Fuel, Halting Uganda –Tanzania Crude Oil Project

Jul 30, 2024

Members of Laudato Si' Movement - Africa are creating awareness on the dangers of fossil fuel on the continent in an initiative that also seeks to halt the East African Crude Oil Pipeline Project (EACOP) – the Uganda-Tanzania initiative that was confirmed in April 2016 as a 1,443km pipeline project to transport oil produced from Uganda’s Lake Albert oilfields to the port of Tanga in Tanzania to be sold to world markets.

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