·       Crowding out of programmes directly benefiting social sector, health, education and environmental protection

·       Undermining efforts and struggles for democracy and freedom in both countries – the pipeline will exacerbate corruption

·       May reignite civil war, repression and violence in the south of Chad

·       Increased human rights abuses by people in positions of power faithful to the military regime of N’Djamena in Chad.

·       Lack of institutional capacity to set out efficient and well-directed use of World Bank loans.

·       Contribution for Cameroon is negligible, and will result in further impoverishment of the people, since there is no specified plan for regional sustainable development (the loans will be used to service foreign debt)

·       Loss of livelihood (land, trees, productive assets, access to water) and resettlement of the rural poor in both countries – thus endangering food security

·       Uncontrolled immigration of workforce – resulting in spread of venereal disease, alcohol abuse, prostitution – all along the pipeline.

·       Loss of biodiversity –pollution from construction camps, pump stations, roads, domestic waste; and

·       Enhanced illegal bushmeat trade and illegal logging.

·       Leaking pipelines (much can occur undetected) – contamination of groundwater and streams of heavy metals.

·       Inadequate IPDP – the Bagyéli will be severely affected by:

·       Losing access to their forest-based subsistence – especially since the IPDP does not contain measures for establishing legal recognition of land and territorial rights.

·       Increased discrimination and repression by the local Bantu

·       Threat to Cameroon’s coastal ecology and economy

·       The national parks which will be set up as a part of the environmental compensation plan, will further affect the plight of the indigenous peoples living in those areas.

·       Break-up of social and cultural structures of local communities, indigenous and other.

·       According to US State Department’s country report on Human Rights Practices in Chad: “ state security forces committed extrajudicial killings, disappearances and tortured, beat, abused and raped persons.”

·       Chad government spent US$ 10 million received from oil companies to buy arms to fight rebel movement in Tibesti

·       Land has been taken from Bagyéli pygmies by the Bantu, who have claimed financial compensation for it from the pipeline consortium – conflict between the communities has been exacerbated by the pipeline.

·       In March 2001, the Bagyéli were still unaware that an IPDP had been developed (despite a World Bank promise of full participation and consultation with the Bagyéli)

·       Many villagers are severely impoverished all along the pipeline

·       Chad’s Revenue Management Law allows the president to change revenue allocation rules five years after adoption of the law…

·       Pollution and water depletion are fundamental problems and have not been adequately addressed.  Dust pollution along the pipeline is a threat to public health and wildlife.

·       Additional loss of land due to increasing work needs and crop damage are further reducing subsistence potential for the local communities.

·       The inadequate IPDP and the environmental mitigation plans have not been implemented or even initiated yet.

·       No protection measures for the Bagyéli exist as such, and the pipeline is being laid down through their ancestral homeland

·       Food security is very serious, with inflation and demand putting the prices of staple foods beyond the means of the villagers – malnutrition is widespread

·       The public health situation is catastrophic: AIDS and other venereal diseases has spread, as has malaria, water-borne diseases, respiratory diseases are almost epidemic: bronchospasm and bronchitis

·       There is severe exploitation of workers through lack of implementation of labour legislation

·       A logging company is threatening to move into Campo Ma’an national park and Bagyéli people are being pushed off their land.

·       The capacity Building project has not followed the pace of the pipeline construction – field monitoring is minimal and most governmental obligations are not being fulfilled

·       Prostitution among young female minors as well as adults has increased, with the predicted effects of disease spread

·       Several schools have been abandoned because of teacher and student attraction to temporary jobs with the pipeline