Thursday, December 13, 2012

BP has a History of Community involvement in Columbia

Recently BP has been offering monetary donations to various community organizations in Cape Vincent , as a form of community participation and outreach.
  Is this standard operating procedure for BP in communities where they have  projects ?  I found an interesting story from October 26,1996 concerning BP’s Community outreach and involvement in Columbia . ..
The European Parliament criticised human rights abuses in Colombia on October 24 and asked that an unpublished Government Human Rights Commission report on the activities of British Petroleum, which MEPs accused during a debate of complicity in human rights abuses and environmental damage in the Casanare region, be made public. 

 British Socialist MEP Richard Howitt, a member of the Parliament's South American delegation, accused BP during the debate earlier that day of collaborating with the military in the region, saying these allegations are backed by the Human Rights Commission report. "The report makes accusations of the passing of secret video evidence to the military leading to the death and disappearances of anti-oil protesters, and suggests that military denunciations against the protesters lead to assassinations", he said.
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Additional information concerning BP's activities in Columbia

BP hands 'tarred in pipeline dirty war'

Colombia's military have been blamed for the murder of thousands of civilians. New claims link the British oil company to a security campaign supplying equipment to a notorious army unit and running a spy network of former troops Continue reading via this link

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