by oilwatch | May 17, 2015 | Latin America
Marcelo Calazans, Tamra Gilbertson and Daniela Meirelles* In 2005, the Brazilian oil company, Petrobras discovered hydrocarbons below the geological salt layer in the Tupi field located in the Atlantic Ocean off-shore of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 2006 a consortium of...
by oilwatch | Jun 30, 2014 | Latin America, News
The Guardian the Kukama Kukamiria’s march to the city of Iquitos. They are protesting the toxic waste land left behind by over 40 years of oil contamination in their territories; and demand respect for their most basic human rights: access to clean water, safe...
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...
