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    <title>BIC Updates: Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) Pipeline Project</title>
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    <description>The latest news on the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) Pipeline Project from the Bank Information Center</description>
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      <title>Additional challenges for the BTC Pipeline</title>
      <description>Following the August 25 reopening of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline after the armed conflict in Georgia, the BTC has faced several technical and strategic issues when it comes to its future and viability.</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Explosion along the BTC Pipeline confirms civil society concerns</title>
      <description>A fire on the Turkish segment of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline has led to declined oil production, pipeline closure, and security fears. </description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Kazakhstan signs BTC agreement into law, plans new pipelines</title>
      <description>Kazakhstan has signed into law a 2006 agreement to transport oil through the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline, while making plans to connect its oil to the BTC route through additional domestic and trans-Caspian pipelines.   </description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>OPIC finds BP negligent with BTC Pipeline</title>
      <description>The U.S. Government Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) recommended to British Petroleum (BP) that more safety precautions are needed for the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) Pipeline, which transports oil from the Caspian Sea through Azerbaijan and Georgia to Turkey. </description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2007 17:36:32 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Kazakhstan joins BTC Pipeline</title>
      <description>Kazakhstan has officially joined the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline after the Kazakh and Azeri Presidents Nursultan Nazarbayev and Ilham Aliyev signed an agreement in Almaty on June 16, 2006. </description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jun 2006 15:25:08 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>New report on BTC refutes claims of poverty reduction</title>
      <description>Report released on October 11, ahead of Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline opening ceremony in Tbilisi, Georgia  details the infringements detected in the construction phase of the Georgian section of the BTC pipeline and the problems – many of them with long-term implications – faced by Georgians during the implementation of the project.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2005 12:17:16 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>BTC pipeline celebrates first oil</title>
      <description>The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline was officially opened on May 25 with Presidential ceremony.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2005 15:21:45 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>New Reports find that BTC pipeline is unsafe</title>
      <description>Two reports released on May 23, ahead of Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline 'opening' ceremony in Baku, reveal significant concerns regarding the environmental and social damage being caused by the World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction &amp; Development (EBRD) backed project in Azerbaijan and Georgia.</description>
      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.2128.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2005 11:05:47 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>BTC pipeline opening followed with violence</title>
      <description>As western dignitaries gather to celebrate the initial flow of Caspian oil - although the Georgian section of the pipeline is still incomplete - police ends a peaceful rally in Baku, Azerbaijan, with arrests and violence. </description>
      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.2127.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2005 10:32:10 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>New BTC oil pipeline movie wins film festival awards</title>
      <description>"The Source", a CEE Bankwatch Network film about the Baku-Tiblisi-Ceyhan pipeline project in Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey, premiered on April 29, 2005 at the One World Film Festival in Prague.</description>
      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.2123.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2005 11:41:42 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>BP 'covered up' pipeline flaw</title>
      <description>BP faces accusations in court from BTC pipeline contractors that it covered up a safety flaw on a strategic energy project, which if uncorrected could cause an environmental disaster in the Caspian region. </description>
      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.2083.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2005 15:30:34 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Major private backer pulls out of BTC Pipeline</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2004 16:46:42 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>BTC construction resumes in Georgia. Georgian protesters clash with police over pipeline route</title>
      <description>Government lifts suspension of work on BTC following BP's failure to obtain environmental certification to proceed</description>
      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.1563.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2004 16:34:17 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>BTC oil pipeline construction halted in Western Georgia</title>
      <description>BP has suspended construction of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline in the Borjomi valley of Georgia for two weeks by request from the Ministry of the Environment of Georgia. </description>
      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.1535.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2004 15:54:41 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Two MDB activists receive prestigious Goldman Environment Prize</title>
      <description>Manana Kochladze of Tbilisi, Georgia was awarded for her fearless efforts to win concessions to protect the environment and local villagers affected by the BTC pipeline project. Rudolf Amenga-Etego of Accra, Ghana was honored for his fight to suspend a major water privatization project backed by the World Bank.</description>
      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.1416.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2004 12:18:04 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Report issued on the public disclosure and consultation process in Azerbaijan</title>
      <description>CEE Bankwatch Network has released its report, "Azerbaijan-Georgia-Turkey pipeline systems: An evaluation of the public disclosure and consultation process." </description>
      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.631.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2004 12:13:38 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Oil Union files corruption charges against the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan</title>
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      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.663.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2003 11:15:04 GMT</pubDate>
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