Exposed: BP, its pipeline, and an environmental timebomb
The safety of a controversial oil pipeline being built by one of Britain's largest companies has been jeopardised by cost-cutting, incompetence and shoddy workmanship by contractors, whistleblowers have reported.
By Philip Thornton, Economics Correspondent
26 June 2004

Hidden costs of pipeline meant to safeguard West's oil supply
Where there's oil, there's trouble - and never has that been truer than today amid fears of a price surge that could pitch the world's economy back into recession.
Philip Thornton, Economics Correspondent
26 June 2004

The real democratic deficit: BP, the Baku-Ceyhan oil pipeline and public funding
Oil companies are asking for taxpayers' money to build a pipeline that could disadvantage thousands, create a militarised zone and exacerbate existing conflicts.
Anders Lustgarten

Trouble in the pipeline
Article by George Monbiot from The Guardian, 3 September 2002

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