Uganda and Tanzania are due to start work on a giant crude oil pipeline a year after the International Energy Agency warned that the world risks missing its climate targets if new fossil fuel projects are not halted. The two East African countries say their priority is economic development. Eighty percent of the 1,440 km pipeline, construction of which will begin in a few months, will be in Tanzania, including a repository at Chongoleani. Because of the waxy nature…
