Description:
"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
Source/publisher:
Earth Rights International (ERI)
Date of Publication:
2010-07-05
Date of entry:
2010-12-21
Grouping:
- Individual Documents
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Language:
English