Terror alert as Caspian oil pipeline opens

Opposition is mounting to US-inspired plans to bring oil through Georgia and Turkey
A £2.3 billion oil pipeline which threatens to wipe out Kurdish villages in Turkey and ruin a site of international environmental interest in Georgia is to be built by UK oil giant BP and could be backed by the British Government.
The project - construction of a 1,087-mile oil pipeline from Azerbaijan on the Caspian Sea through Georgia to Ceyhan on the Turkish Mediterranean coast - is beginning to attract significant international opposition. It also threatens to tarnish the reputation of BP, which is keen to present itself as an environmentally responsible company. Critics say the pipeline contravenes international law, will wreak environmental havoc and could lead to human rights abuses by Turkey's notorious gendarmerie, who will be responsible for protecting the Turkish section.


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The Dutch study backed environmentalists' fears that routing the project through the Borjomi region of Georgia would destroy an area of outstanding natural beauty. The region is famous for its natural spring water which accounts for 10 per cent of Georgia's exports. 'It's like putting a pipeline through the Malvern Hills,' said Nicholas Hildyard of The Corner House, an environment and development research group. What further concerns an alliance of non-governmental organisations is that under Host Government Agreements signed by Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey, the three countries are committed to the full costs of security, and the costs of compensating the pipeline consortium for losses incurred as a result of new social and environmental laws over the next 40 years.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,851192,00.html

where Paul Wolfowitz is ... is this what "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" is about?

so, the footprint of oil dependency-turbulent Middle East (and, correlation to our foreign policy; the destruction; conflicts) widens to the Caspian Sea Basin?


Imagining 'what if' all the life cycle costs and human resources involved in this project had gone to development of alternative, renewable energy resources.

Current policies and course seem to be a living death wish syndrome.

Did the Council on Foreign Policy help prepare the Caspian Sea blueprint? was PNAC cc'd? Cheney's Energy Task Force?
http://www.treemedia.com/cfr/ c.1999
http://www.treemedia.com/cfr/library/library.html

Peak Oil is not necessarily running out of oil. He said the "cost of extracting it will go higher and higher, until the cost becomes prohibitive".

I think we've reached that stage.

Who is going to pay for these guards in Georgia, who are guarding the pipeline? Imagine, paying for armed guards, along 1,000 miles of pipeline.

The US? We're hemorrhaging to death financially, in Iraq and Afghanistan. None of the money for these wars has been paid for in current funds. It's all borrowed from the future.

What happens if there is an attack on the pipeline? Can these guards really do anything? They're probably 1 or 2 at each outpost, just enough to provide some cover for the pipeline.

If there was a group of insurgents, or some kind of bomb, they would not be able to stop the attack.

That's the great thing about fiat currencies. The entire global economy is a giant Ponzi scheme.

conducted by British Petroleum. Are there US petroleum companies involved that you know of.

BP is partnered with nearly everybody in exploration and development worldwide. Resources are shared, teams combined. Profit for BP means money/resources to assist someone else in another project somewhere. The big oil companies, in a lot of ways, are one.