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,...
by oilwatch | Jun 29, 2013 | Africa, Global, News
Telegraphng Photos and news reports of dead whales washing up on the shores of Ghana in recent weeks raise very serious worries about the state of the marine environment there. If it were a question of one or two whales washing up, perhaps there would be no cause for...
by oilwatch | May 23, 2013 | Latin America, News
La Prensa Rio de Janeiro, May 23 (EFE).- Brazil’s first auction of contracts to develop offshore oil and gas reserves in the pre-salt region will be held in October, or earlier than previously scheduled, the government said Thursday. The government’s...
