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Article: Canadian corporate responsibility and the war in Sudan.
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- Ploughshares Monitor
- Article date:
- March 1, 2000
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As long as the oil flows in Sudan and a Canadian company is involved, we must encourage Talisman to mitigate the negative consequences of the oil operations and meet its moral and legal obligations.
The operations of a Canadian oil company, Talisman Energy Inc., in Sudan have come under intense scrutiny in the past year. Criticism of the company grows out of concerns that general oil operations supported by Talisman are exacerbating both the war and human rights violations in Sudan. Late last year the Canadian Government appointed Africa specialist John Harker to lead an investigative mission to Sudan to look into, among other things, the links between oil and ...