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Tony Blair lends face to Azeri pipeline
Tony Blair (above), Nursultan Nazarbayev (above, right) and Ilham Aliyev
British former Prime Minister Tony Blair has been appointed an advisor to a consortium lobbying for a pipeline to transport Azerbaijani gas to Europe.
Azerbaijan’s pompous kleptocrat Ilham Aliyev, whose 11-year-old son Heydar owns nine luxury mansions set on the Palm Jumeirah worth $44 million, has appointed British former Prime Minister Tony Blair as an advisor to a consortium which is lobbying for a pipeline to transport Azerbaijani gas to Europe.
The consortium includes British Petroleum (BP), which is developing Shah Deniz 2, a huge natural gas field in the Caspian Sea. It also includes SOCAR – the State Oil company of Azerbaijan, which owns a 20% stake in ElectroGas Ltd, the consortium chosen by the Maltese government to provide Malta with gas for the next 18 years.
The consortium wants to export Azeri gas through a “southern energy corridor” made up of two pipelines – one called Tanap that will run the length of Turkey, and another known as TAP stretching from Turkey’s border with Greece across Albania to Italy.
Source: http://philosophers-stone.co.uk/wordpress/2014/08/tony-blair-lends-face-to-azeri-pipeline/
