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 23, 2014 | News, South Asia
Ejolt By Joan Martinez Alier. The Hindutva nationalist right-wing prime minister Modi in India is rallying against Environmental Justice Organisations (EJOs) financed by foreign money. High on his list are EJOs from Scandinavian countries or Germany, which are...
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...
