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Kukamas abandon hunger strike over Peruvian Amazon oil pollution

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...

Peru now has a ‘licence to kill’ environmental protesters

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...

Ecuador signs permits for oil drilling in Amazon’s Yasuni national park

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...

Why Ecuador’s president is misleading the world on Yasuni-ITT

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...
Ecuador: oil company has built ‘secret’ road deep into Yasuni National Park

Ecuador: oil company has built ‘secret’ road deep into Yasuni National Park

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...

Is This the Ecuador Government’s Way of Mocking the UN?

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...
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