Today’s decision by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to grant a USD 250 million loan for BP’s controversial Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline has come as no surprise to environmental campaigners
Georgian environment group Green Alternative has today written to the executive directors of both the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the International Finance Corporation to express the group's misgivings
Ever since British Petroleum CEO Sir John Browne declared that the controversial Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline would be viable only "if 'free money' is offered by governments to build the line", environmental groups
Nongovernmental organisations and public activists are gathering in front of the local office of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in the Georgian capital today to express their concerns regarding EBRD
The Baku-Supsa pipeline was the first fast-track component of the "contract of the century," involving partial development of the Chirag oil field and related facilities in the Caspian Sea. The export of oil from Sangachal
