The approaching May 2013 deadline for the completion of China’s giant oil and gas pipelines across Burma is causing growing alarm among thousands of Shans along the pipeline route. A third of the 800-kilometer route crosses northern Shan State, through almost 2,000 acres of forests and farmlands. Since 2011, vast tracts of rice fields and orchards have been bulldozed, with soil dumping and water blockage causing crop damage far beyond the 100-feet wide pipeline corridor. Impacted Shan communities from six townships have been given no information about the impacts of the project, and been forced into accepting unfair and unequal amounts of compensation. Now, with billions of cubic meters of gas and oil about to start flowing, they are fearful of dangerous leaks and explosion due to the poor construction. [Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited the companies named in the report to respond. Chinese National Petroleum Corporation has indicated that it is investigating the issue and will respond at a later date; we will indicate whether the company responds in next week’s Update. Myanmar Oil and Gas Enterprise has not sent a response; we will indicate here whether the company responds.]