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Oil discovery changes land use in Bunyoro (Uganda)
...[R]esidents of Bunyoro sub-region...are experiencing changes on their land uses since oil deposits were discovered in the region. Oil firms have set up well pads, camps and constructed access roads through communal grazing areas...In instances where they have damaged properties, oil firms said they have paid compensation rates to property owners set by the chief government valuer...The law gives the sole power to determine those rates to the Chief Government Valuer,” Tullow Oil said...The president of Bunyoro Lake Albert Indigenous Peoples Survival Movement...says it is regrettable that...oil discovery...has come with land grabbing and illegitimate acquisition of titles by officials who are non indigenous in the Albertine basin. This has led to collapse of...traditional economic activity of salt mining...and loss of...identity such as cultures, lifestyles, traditional habitat and environment[al destruction]