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 | May 19, 2014 | News
Oil major says fossil fuels will be needed through 2050 * Calls “carbon bubble” theory flawed in letter to shareholders * Says decarbonisation of energy sector will take decades * Predicts it could take rest of century to resolve climate change LONDON, May...
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 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...
by oilwatch | Mar 17, 2014 | News, South Asia
Amazon Watch China’s economy and its global influence are growing at a rapid rate. Nowhere is that growing influence clearer than in Ecuador, a country that Beijing has lent nearly $9 billion and has promised $7 billion more in financing. Those loans and...
by oilwatch | Feb 19, 2014 | Latin America, News
The Guardian The Ecuadorian government was negotiating a secret $1bn deal with a Chinese bank to drill for oil under the Yasuni national park in the Amazon while pursuing a high-profile scheme to keep the oil under the ground in return for international donations,...