by oilwatch | Jun 29, 2014 | Latin America, News
The Guardian Some of the recent media coverage about the fact that more than 50 people in Peru – the vast majority of them indigenous – are on trial following protests and fatal conflict in the Amazon over five years ago missed a crucial point. Yes, the hearings are...
by oilwatch | Jun 29, 2014 | Latin America, News
Drilling for oil in a part of the Amazon rainforest considered one of the most biodiverse hotspots on the planet is to go ahead less than a year after Ecuador’s president lifted a moratorium on oil drilling there. Last August, Rafeal Correa scrapped a pioneering...
by oilwatch | Jun 29, 2014 | Latin America, News
The Ishpingo-Tambococha-Tiputini region of Yasuni contains more species in a hectare than all the wildlife in North America. Photograph: Alamy The decision by Ecuador’s president Rafael Correa to abandon a plan to permanently forgo exploiting hundreds of...
by oilwatch | Jun 6, 2014 | Latin America, News
Ecologist While no one had been looking, while the world wasn’t watching, PetroAmazonas went ahead with a plan rejected by the Ministry of Environment years before. The existence of the ‘secret road’ into Yasuni, leading directly to an oil production...
by oilwatch | Jun 5, 2014 | Latin America, News
The Huffington Post There was a reason Ecuador’s president, Rafael Correa, chose to announce his support for an initiative to forgo exploiting the Tiputini, Tambococha and Ishpingo oil fields under the Yasuni National Park – home to indigenous peoples and...
by oilwatch | Jun 3, 2014 | Latin America, News
Redd Monitor Last month, Ecuador’s government approved permits for oil drilling in the Yasuní National Park. The drilling will be carried out by a subsidiary of the national oil company, Petroamazonas and will start in 2016. The permits are in the...
