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Oil profits trickling down? Not for Cameroon fishermen
November 14th, 2007
Source: EcoEgg Content Partners
While world oil prices surge to record levels — bringing unheard-of profits to international oil majors — African communities complain that they are not getting their share of the cash. Four years after the opening of a 1,000 kilometre pipeline bringing crude from Chad to an export terminal on the coast of Cameroon, fishermen working near the multi-million-dollar facility claim pollution has reduced their catches, while their villages have seen little investment.
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