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Uganda-Tanzania oil pipeline controversy

In September, the European Union waded into the controversy surrounding the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (Eacop), and called for it to be halted, citing human rights abuses and concern for the environment and the climate which was dismissed by the Ugandan and Tanzanian governments which see the pipeline as vital to turbo-charge their economies. Uganda and Tanzania are set to begin work on a massive crude oil pipeline a year after the International Energy Agency warned that the world risked not meeting its climate goals if new fossil fuel projects were not stopped. Do you think that the European Union just want to interfere with the oil pipeline project ?

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