China Says Burma Oil Pipeline Is Complete
: but Faces Protests at Home
Contrary to local report within Burma, the official China media this week quoted the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) as saying its controversial oil pipeline through the country had been completed.
Earlier reports said the oil line would not be finished until late this year. A sister natural gas pipeline running alongside from the Bay of Bengal at Kyaukphyu into China’s Yunnan Province is currently undergoing operational trials, CNPC said.
CNPC has faced widespread protests about land confiscation and forced removal of rural communities along the length of the 900-kilometer pipelines. Now, it is facing protests from Chinese residents in the Yunnan capital Kunming who are opposed to the construction of a refinery and petrochemicals plant, which is meant to be fed by the Burma oil pipeline.
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