by oilwatch | May 10, 2013 | Africa, Global, Latin America, News, South Asia
ScienceBlogs Posted by Peter Gleick on May 10, 2013 The planet has passed a disturbing landmark, a marker on a continuing highway to climate disruption. On May 9th, the NOAA and the Mauna Loa observatory reported that atmospheric CO2 levels touched 400 parts per...
by oilwatch | May 2, 2013 | Africa, Latin America, Publication, South Asia
THE AFRICA REPORT When Svante Arrhenius, a Swedish chemist and Nobel laureate, published the first articles on climate change in 1896, the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere was 300 parts per million (ppm). It is now reaching 400 ppm and rising 2 ppm per...
by oilwatch | Apr 3, 2013 | Africa, Latin America, News
LA PRENSA Brazil’s ANP energy regulator has authorized six more companies to participate in an auction of offshore oil and natural gas exploration and production blocks. The six newly qualified companies bring to 44 the number registered to participate in the...
by oilwatch | Mar 29, 2013 | Latin America, News
THE GUARDIAN Indigenous groups claim they have not consented to oil projects, as politicians visit Beijing to publicise bidding process Ecuador plans to auction off more than three million hectares of pristine Amazonian rainforest to Chinese oil companies, angering...
by oilwatch | Mar 1, 2013 | Latin America, News
Offshore RIO DE JANEIRO – Oil production at Petrobras-operated fields in the presalt areas of the Campos and Santos basins has reached the 300,000 b/d mark.This figure accounts for production from 17 wells, six in Santos basin and 11 in Campos basin. Santos accounts...
by oilwatch | Sep 21, 2012 | Latin America, News
Bolpress.com En cinco años la Iniciativa Yasuni recaudó 336 millones de dólares, menos del 10% de los 3.600 millones que esperaba Ecuador de la comunidad internacional. El gobierno de Rafael Correa decidirá en junio o julio de este año si explota o no los 800 millones...