Complaint > Chad-Cameroon Pipeline-02/Cameroon

Eligibility: Ombudsman Assessment Report regarding concerns from community members about the Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline project (#11124) in Cameroon, January 2012

...requests CAO’s assistance in addressing a number of environmental and social concerns regarding the Cameroonian side of the Chad-Cameroon pipeline project. From the group of directly-affected local community members, two community-member complainants have requested that the CAO keep their identities confidential. Therefore names of community members or their villages will not be shared in this report7. In June 2011, the four NGOs agreed to have a summary of the complaint posted on the CAO websit...

Complaint > Chad-Cameroon Pipeline-02/Cameroon

Filing: Complaint regarding the Chad-Cameroon Pipeline Project, May 25, 2011

...requested wells or improved water points. Problems emerged very quickly with the water points constructed by the company’s subcontractors, forcing the communities to obtain water from sources of dubious quality. In a village to the south of the pipeline, residents are forced to travel several kilometers to find a water point because of the poor quality of the water obtained from the well built by the company. Village residents have appealed to the company for assistance on a number of occasions,...