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...
by oilwatch | Jun 3, 2014 | Latin America, News
Geoyasuni High Resolution Satellite Imagery Reveals Petroamazonas Violated Environmental Impact Study by Building Road into Yasuní National Park Matt Finer (a), Salvatore Eugenio Pappalardo (b), Francesco Ferrarese (c), Massimo De Marchi.[ full technical report PDF ]...
by oilwatch | Jun 2, 2014 | Latin America, News
The Guardian Dolls representing the oil exploitation in the Yasuni Natural Park Ecuador’s government was moving to install a power plant to exploit oil fields under the iconic Yasuni national park at the same time as pursuing a high-profile international scheme...
by oilwatch | Apr 30, 2014 | Latin America, News
The Guardian Indian women rotest against extraction of oil from Yasuni Amazon reserve, Ecuador An Amazon Indian woman holds a poster that reads in Spanish: ‘Down with oil. Up with life’ during a protest against the extraction of oil from the Yasuni...
by oilwatch | Apr 29, 2014 | Africa, Global, Latin America, Publication, South Asia
We have recently changed the way we send out our information, including our monthly electronic Bulletin. This means that e-mail subscribers need to re-register via our WRM web site, and because of this, many people who used to receive the WRM Bulletin no longer do so....
by oilwatch | Apr 16, 2014 | Africa, Global, Latin America, News
The Guardian Today it is accepted, but 20-30 years ago campaigners were struggling to even get an acknowledgement that climate change was happening, let alone that it was manmade. It would have been hard to imagine that one day we might hold the developed nations...