Cameroon

Documentary filmmaker Christiane Badgley investigates the effects of the oil pipeline constructed by Exxon/Mobil and other oil companies, with assistance from the World Bank, through the West African nations of Chad and Cameroon. This project was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, with additional support from the Center for Investigative Reporting's Henry Dermarest Lloyd Investigative Fund.

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Part three of a three part series investigating environmental, corruption, and health concerns related to the $3.7 billion oil pipeline under construction in Chad and Cameroon. The pipeline, built by an international consortium, including the World Bank, ExxonMobil, and ChevronTexaco, is expected to begin pumping oil for the U.S. market by the end of 2003. Reporter Ken Silverstein reveals concerns that AIDS may become the pipeline's greatest legacy, despite World Bank claims that the project would bring significant resources to Chad and Cameroon. Researchers fear that the truckers, workers and prostitutes populating the pipeline route are spreading the HIV virus and will increase infection rates when they return home.

Part one of a three part series investigating environmental, health and corruption concerns related to the $3.7 billion oil pipeline constructed in Chad and Cameroon by an international consortium that includes the World Bank, Exxon Mobil, and ChevronTexaco. The pipeline will allow the United States to tap a new source of petroleum just as war, terrorism and rising anti-Americanism threaten to disrupt Middle East oil supplies. But can the largest development project ever undertaken in Africa fulfill its promises of economic development?

Part two of a three part series investigating environmental, corruption, and health concerns related to the $3.7 billion oil pipeline under construction in Chad and Cameroon. The pipeline, built by an international consortium, including the World Bank, ExxonMobil, and ChevronTexaco, is expected to begin pumping oil for the U.S. market by the end of 2003. The second story in this series explores the unfulfilled promises made by the pipeline consortium to create economic development and offset environmental destruction along the pipeline route.