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home > fellows' stories > spring 2006 > azerbaijan

Oil Money Divides a Village

by Kelly McEvers, Spring 2006 IRP Fellow
Reprinted with permission of American Public Media's "Marketplace"

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October 19, 2006

Oil giant BP recently opened a new pipeline from Azerbaijan to Turkey. Some residents of one Azeri village received hundreds of thousands of dollars to compensate for lost land, but is the town better off? Kelly McEvers has the story.

Listen to McEvers's report at Marketplace.publicradio.org

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