Oilwatch in Latin America
Oilwatch affiliate activities and news from the Latin American Region
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Grants for Environmental and Climate Justice Action
Oilwatch is pleased to announce a call for proposals for small grants of up to USD $5,000 but not more than USD $10,000 to support grassroots groups and movements working on projects aligned with its principles and focused on addressing the issues of fossil...
We denounce threats to the lives of environmental leaders that are occurring in the environmental licensing process of a fracking pilot project in Colombia
The undersigned national and international organisations reject the threats and intimidation suffered by members of the Colombian Alliance Against Fracking, activists who defend their territories against attempts to develop fracking projects promoted by the Colombian...
Report: Energy Poverty and Energy as a right in Latin America
In December, the Observatorio Petrolero Sur in Argentina published the English version of their latest report 'Electricity Belongs to the People. Energy Poverty and Energy as a Right in Latin America' ("Las luces son del pueblo. Energía, acceso y pobreza energética")....
Oilwatch Latin America Statement: The Climate Debate is Not About CO2 Molecules!
Oilwatch Latin America Network states: The climate debate is not about carbon molecules: It is urgent to leave fossil energies buried forever! View the full statement: Statement_OWLA.CO2_ENDownload Accede a la declaración en castellano. Acesse a declaração em...
It is time to create ANNEX 0
Proposal for COP21, Paris, December 2015 The Annex 0 proposal was made to COP21 in Paris, in December 2015 and further released at COP25, Madrid, December 2019. The purpose of this document is to present the commitments and efforts of the peoples, nationalities, and...
Regarding the “new and multi-million dollar” ITT reserves.
YASunidos to the country. Apparently the "most important things in life," like the politic, the economy, the macro-economy... are only valid in so far as they present facts, numbers, and statistics. The more and larger these figures are, the better is, as we've seen...
Brazilian pre-salt expansion: corruption and the petroleum industry
Marcelo Calazans, Tamra Gilbertson and Daniela Meirelles* In 2005, the Brazilian oil company, Petrobras discovered hydrocarbons below the geological salt layer in the Tupi field located in the Atlantic Ocean off-shore of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 2006 a consortium of...
Kukamas abandon hunger strike over Peruvian Amazon oil pollution
The Guardian the Kukama Kukamiria's march to the city of Iquitos. They are protesting the toxic waste land left behind by over 40 years of oil contamination in their territories; and demand respect for their most basic human rights: access to clean water, safe food,...
Peru now has a ‘licence to kill’ environmental protesters
The Guardian Some of the recent media coverage about the fact that more than 50 people in Peru – the vast majority of them indigenous – are on trial following protests and fatal conflict in the Amazon over five years ago missed a crucial point. Yes, the hearings are...
Ecuador signs permits for oil drilling in Amazon’s Yasuni national park
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...
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