Chad-Cameroon Oil Pipeline Project

• "The logic was sound, but reality interferred," The World Bank Group and the Chad-Cameroon Oil & Pipeline project, Groupe Tchad, June 2010 (PDF, 414 KB) Also Available in French.

• List of Chad-Cameroon Civil Society Documentation with Abstracts (Acrobat pdf 135 KB)
• Chad Oil Revenues in Doubt, NPR interview with BIC's Africa Program Manager Nikki Reisch, March 3, 2006 (NPR website)
• Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project Civil Society Monitoring Activities, Update # 3, Bank Information Center, September 2003 (Acrobat pdf 135 KB)
• World Bank Suspends Loans to Chad – “Model” Oil Project on the Rocks Oxfam International Statement on World Bank and Chad Oil Project, January 6, 2006
• Chad's Oil Revenue Management Experiment in Crisis by the Bank Information Center, Friends of the Earth, Environmental Defense, and Oxfam International (Bank Information Center website)
• Chad's Oil: Miracle or Mirage? Following the Money in Africa's Newest Petro-State by The Bank Information Center and Catholic Relief Services, February 2005
• The Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development & Pipeline Project: Environmental and Social Problems Identified by the External Compliance Monitoring Group, the International Advisory Group, and the Inspection Panel, Environmental Defense, Bank Information Center, and Catholic Relief Services, July 2004 (Acrobat pdf 115 KB)
• The Chad-Cameroon Pipeline: the Case for Implementation of the EIR Recommendations, Bank Information Center, Catholic Relief Services and Environmental Defense, April 2004 (Acrobat pdf 89KB)
• Africa Program Briefing: Chad Trip Report August 2003, Bank Information Center, October 2003 (Acrobat pdf 38 KB)
• Declaration de N’Djamena, August 9, 2003 [Francais]
• Judgement on the case of the 8 Willbros employees is expected for late September, Center for Environment and Development, August, 2003
• Chad-Cameroon Pipeline Project: 8 Former Employees Detained In Mbalmayo”, testimony of 8 former pipeline employees, Center for Environment and Development, August, 2003
• “Document-Bilan de l’Appel de Juin 2000,” Reseau des Commissions Permanentes Pétrole du Tchad (CPPL-CPPN-RESAP) et GRAMP/TC, July 2003 (Acrobat pdf 284 KB)
• Bottom of the Barrel: Africa's Oil Boom and the Poor, Catholic Relief Services, June 2003 (CRS website)
• Poverty Reduction or Poverty Exacerbation? World Bank Group Support for Extractive Industries in Africa, Scott Pegg, IUPUI, April 2003 (Acrobat pdf 1 MB). Also available: Français (560 KB)
• Information on the Oil Spill Response Plan, Comité du Pilotage du Suivi Indépendant du Projet du Pipeline, March, 2003
• Comité du Pilotage du Suivi Indépendant du Projet du Pipeline (Information on the Oil Spill Response Plan), March 2003 (Acrobat pdf 335 KB)
• Comments on the Oil Spill Response Plan, Center for Environment and Development, February 14, 2003 (Acrobat pdf 138 KB)
• NGO Declaration on the Specific Oil Spill Response Plan for Cameroon, February, 2003
• "Des Dechets A Ciel Ouvert Dans La Zone Petrolifiere," GRAMP/TC Newsletter, Nov. 2002 (Acrobat pdf 390 KB)
• Traversing People's Lives, Friends of the Earth International, September, 2002 (FOE website)
• The Chad Cameroon Pipeline Project in Light of Agenda 21, FOCARFE, August 2002 (Acrobat pdf 280 KB)
• The Chad-Cameroon Oil and Pipeline Project: A Call for Accountability, Center for Environment and Development, Environmental Defense, Association Tchadienne pour la Promotion et Defénse des Droits de l'Homme June 18, 2002 (Environmental Defense website)
• Broken Promises: The Chad-Cameroon Oil and Pipeline Project: Profit At Any Cost?, Friends of the Earth-International, Center for Environment and Development, Urgewald, June 2001 (CIEL website) 
• Environmental Defense Case Studies: Africa's Chad-Cameroon Oil and Pipeline Project, 2001 (Environmental Defense website)
• Chad-Cameroon Oil Pipeline Project: A Study Tool and Case Study, Developed by Dr. J. Paul Martin, SIPA and the Center for New Media Teaching and Learning, Columbia UniversityFor updated French-language press coverage on the Chad-Cameroon pipeline, see GRAMP/TC site (http://www.gramptc.org) and GRAMP/TC site and TchadForum

Press

• Oil wealth fails Chadian villagers by Stephanie Hancock, 30 August, 2006 (BBC website)
• Why a World Bank oil project has run into the sand by David White, January 22, 2006 (Financial Times website)
• Chadians React to World Bank Loan Suspension by Joe Bavier, Voice of America, January 8, 2006 (www.voanews.com)
• World Bank Suspends Loans to Chad Over Use of Oil Money by Celia W. Dugger, the New York Times, January 7, 2006 (NY Times website)
• World Bank Cuts Off Aid To Chad in Oil Dispute; Nation Won't Yield On Pipeline Revenue by Paul Blustein, Washington Post, January 7, 2006 (Washington Post website)
• Wolfowitz Suspends World Bank Loans to Chad , by Reuters, January 6, 2006 (Reuters website)
• Chad May Alter Its Pledge on Oil Funds by Paul Blustein, Washington Post, December 30, 2006 (www.sfgate.com)
• Breaking the Oil Curse The New York Times, December 16, 2005 (New York Times website)
• Tchad La malédiction du pétrole [Francais] (Chad: The curse of oil), l’Humanité, September 20, 2003 (l’Humanité website)
• Tchad La visite à Paris d'Idriss Déby Paris bénit Déby [Francais] (Chad: Idriss Deby's visit to Paris; Paris blesses Deby), l’Humanité, September 20, 2003 (l’Humanité website)
• AIDS Could Follow African Pipeline, L.A. Times (Must be registered to access), June 18, 2003 (LA Times website)
• Health and equity impacts of a large oil project in Africa, William Jobin, member, Panel of Experts for Chad-Cameroon project (2003) (World Health Organization website)
• Possible illnesses: assessing the health impacts of the Chad Pipeline Project, by Lori Leonard, Bulletin of World Health Organization, 2003 (World Health Organization website)

Useful Web Pages

• TchadForum, For updated French-language press coverage on the Chad-Cameroon pipeline
• ChadFacts (francais)
• Catholic Relief Services Chad-Cameroon Pipeline
• Friends of the Earth Chad-Cameroon Oil Pipeline