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Anti-fracking mobilization suppressed and indigenous houses burnt due to resistance over Chevron-YPF agreement
OPSUR The agreement [1] between Chevron and YPF needed Neuquén's parliament ratification due to federal sovereignty over natural resources. Since civil society's participation was not allowed at any stage, a pacific mobilization –organized by unions, mapuche...
Open letter to the National Assembly of Ecuador
The fate of the Yasuni-ITT initiative supported by 90 per cent of the Ecuadorian population now rests with the National Assembly and what it decides to do or not to do. The Assembly has already made one decision by omission when it failed to denounce the environmental...
Global Action Day in support of Amazonian Peoples of Ecuador
**Against the XI Oil Bidding*/Day: 16th of July,/ in front of Ecuadorean embassies and diplomaticdelegations all over the world. It will be given a letter from social organisations and movements insolidarity with the struggles of amazonian peoples in Ecuador,...
Money Can’t Buy Environmental Justice
HomeF NORWICH DECLARATION ON ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: Money Can't Buy Environmental Justice 10/07/2013 THIS DECLARATION EMERGED FROM A WORKSHOP HELD AT THE UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA IN NORWICH, ENGLAND ON JUNE 20-22, 2013, ON GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE. WE, AN...
Letter to the MEPS
Monday, 1st July 2013 To: Members of the European Parliament Brussels Dear Member of the European Parliament What MEPs should be debating instead of backloading As you prepare to vote again on the proposal to backload 900 million permits from the EU ETS, 42...
Dead whale tales and other horrors
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...
Open letter to the President of Ecuador as the date approaches for assessment of the Yasuní-ITT initiative
Mr. President Correa: We wish to register our opposition to the way that the Yasuni-ITT initiative is being dismantled without proper public discussion and review and to what appear to be attempts to make petroleum exploitation in Yasuni National Park a fait accompli....
Brazil to hold 1st pre-salt auction in October
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 National Council...
“Unburnable” fuels, How to keep the oil in the soil
Brussels, May 21, 2013 Today, a global coalition of economists and activists release a 200p report on a variety of initiatives to leave "unburnable" fuels in the soil. The EU funded EJOLT network studied a range of campaigns and innovative proposals that aim to stem...
Brazil’s 11th bidding round for oil and gas exploration blocks receives record bids
World Oil BRASÍLIA -- The 11th Bidding Round for Oil and Gas Exploration Blocks held yesterday by the Brazilian National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP) in Rio de Janeiro received a $1.4 billion in bids for exploration rights. The 797.81% premium...
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