Hands to Hearts International
Nurturing Children ~ Empowering Women
Hands to Hearts International (HHI), is a nonprofit dedicated to helping the world’s most needy children at their most vulnerable time. HHI combines economic development and empowerment for disadvantaged women with desperately needed health services for orphaned children. See: Hands to Hearts International at http://www.handstohearts.org/home.htm ...learn more
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Created: Nov 16, 2007
Updated: Sep 09, 2009
Membership: Open
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Our Mission
Crude Accountability works with local activists and citizen groups in
the Caspian Sea basin to protect the region's natural environment and
to ensure environmental justice for communities impacted by natural
resource development.
We focus our campaigns on the local level,
bringing the concerns and demands of communities to the international
arena. We provide those who live closest to environmentally harmful
projects with an opportunity to address those in power whose decisions
impact their lives.
Our Programs
1. Crude Accountability is seeking relocation and compensation for the
nearly 1300 villagers of Berezovka, Kazakhstan who are suffering from a
host of chronic illnesses as a result of exposure to toxins from the
nearby Karachaganak oil and gas field. The field is operated by
Chevron, British Gas, ENI and Lukoil, and is financed by the World Bank
Group's private lending arm, the International Finance Corporation
(IFC). In other words, US tax payer money, intended to support the
World Bank's mission to alleviate poverty, is financing this
environmentally destructive project.
2. Crude Accountability is
campaiging to stop the development of oil and gas transport terminals
on the Taman Peninsula in southwestern Russia. As in the Karachaganak
case, the Russkiy Mir Oil Terminal is financed by the IFC. The project
is threatening local communities by destroying their most productive
fishing grounds, polluting the air, water and soil and undermining the
existing economy, which is based on fishing, tourism and agriculture.
3.
Crude Accountability brings you the latest information about the
environmental situation in Turkmenistan, a country that you'll
increasingly see in the headlines as it has one of the world's largest
undeveloped natural gas fields. Turkmenistan's South Yolotan Field
alone contains an estimated 6 trillion cubic meters of gas (in
comparison, the entire US had proven gas reserves of 5.98 trillion
cubic meters by late 2007). Focusing on the impact of oil and gas
development, we bring you information about the companies active in
Turkmenistan and what this development may mean for the environment of
the country, from its desert regions to the shores of the Caspian Sea.
