Energy Insecurity: How Total, Chevron, and PTTEP Contribute to Human Rights Violations, Financial Secrecy, and Nuclear Proliferation in Burma (Myanmar)

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"The oil companies Total (France), Chevron (US), and PTT Exploration & Production (PTTEP) (Thailand) have failed to stop human rights abuses occurring in relation to their natural gas project in Burma (Myanmar), abuses for which the companies bear responsibility and remain vulnerable to liability.1 The companies are financing the world?s newest nuclear threat with multi-billion dollar payments, and have refused to practice financial transparency, despite calls by the Burmese and international community. As Burma braces itself for its first elections in 20 years, elections widely discredited as unfair, it is not too late for the companies to change course..."...TABLE OF CONTENTS: Methodology... Executive Summary... Chapter I: Continuing Abuses: Human Rights Violations and the Yadana and Pipeline, 2009-2010: i Targeted Killings; ii Mandatory Military Trainings: Protecting the Pipeline Corridor; iii Forced Labor; iv What?s Green is not Always Good: Land Confiscation for Forest Conservation Areas ; v The Companies? Legal Liabilities for Complicity in Human Rights Abuses.... Chapter II: Revenue Secrecy: Total, Chevron, and PTTEP?s Payments to the Junta and Refusals to Practice Revenue Transparency: i A Global Call for Revenue Transparency in Burma 15; ii Total?s Response; iii Chevron?s Response; iv Binding Mechanisms for Revenue Transparency.... Chapter III: The Yadana Natural Gas Project Revenue: i Introduction: Financing the World?s Newest Nuclear Threat; ii Yadana Project Revenue Totals; iii Yadana Project Revenue Distribution.... Conclusion.... Recommendations.... Appendix A: Yadana Gas Revenue Calculations.... Appendix B: A Call for Total, Chevron, and PTTEP to Practice Revenue Transparency in Burma (Myanmar), April 27, 2010.... Appendix C: Total and Chevron?s Responses to the Global Call for Revenue Transparency.... Endnotes

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Earth Rights International (ERI)

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2010-07-05

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2010-12-21

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English

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