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U’WA: A CALL FOR JUSTICE, A CALL FOR SUPPORT

“The U'wa people, by the power we have held for thousands of years, feel ourselves compelled to call out to the world. Understand that the strength of our power is with our words. We, the U'wa, are nonviolent people. Our power is our instinctive respect and spiritual consciousness.

The Price of Oil

New York Times - Magazine | More than 35 years ago, an offshore drilling rig spilled approximately three million gallons of oil into the waters near Santa Barbara. A massive slick covered hundreds of square miles and killed thousands of birds, seals and dolphins; the white beaches of California turned black with crude.

Osinerg Could Sanction TGP Over Pipeline Spills - Peru

BNamericas.com | Peru's energy regulator Osinerg will hire an international consulting firm to carry out an emergency review of the Camisea project's natural gas liquids (NGLs) pipeline operated by TGP after four spills in the past 15 months, the mines and energy ministry said in a statement.Osinerg could fine TGP, force it to adopt ce

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Hunt Oil Gets Warning: Amazon Destruction Will Harm Your Project’s Financing

Hunt Oil Criticized for Choosing Destructive Practices and for Repeated Spills in the Most Biodiverse Rainforest on Earth Project Revenues Fuel Peru’s Military SpendingIn a letter sent to Hunt Oil’s CEO Ray Hunt on Friday, environmental groups warned the Texas Company that its abysmal record of Amazon destru

Machiguengas and Yines Launch Urubamba River Blockade

Protesting the Fourth Gas Spill of the Camisea Project, Communities Demand an Independent Audit of the Entire PipelineThe indigenous organizations COMARU, CECONAMA and FECONAYY of the Urubamba River, in Cusco, Peru today initiated a blockade of the Urubamba River in protest of the fourth gas leak of the Camisea Project

Perú: Cuarto Derrame en un Año de Gasoducto Camisea Preocupa a Comunidades

Servindi.org | El 24 de noviembre a las 4.53 se produjo el cuarto derrame de líquidos entre los Km. 50 y 52 del Derecho de Vía afectando territorios de alta biodiversidad como la Reserva Comunal Machiguenga y contaminando el río bajo Urubamba produciendo mortandad de peces.

COMARU - CECONAMA 2do Pronunciamiento Sobre Cuarto Derrame de Camisea

SEGUNDO PRONUNCIAMIENTO DE LAS FEDERACIONES DE COMUNIDADES NATIVAS DEL BAJO URUBAMBA28 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2005AL MINISTERIO DE ENERGÍA Y MINASA PERUPETROAL DEFENSOR DEL PUEBLOA LA DEFENSORÍA DEL PROYECTO GAS DE CAMISEAA OSINERGA LOS MEDIOS DE COMUNICACIÓN NACIONALESA LA

COMARU Pronouncement on Camisea Project's 4th Gas Spill

To the Ministry of Energy and MinesTo PerupetroTo the Defensor del Pueblo (Human Rights Ombudsman)To the Defensoria del Proyecto Camisea (Human Rights Ombudsman on the Camisea Project)To OSINERG (Peru Energy Regulatory Agency)To the Regional Government of CuscoTo the General Public

"Crude Reflections Comes to San Francisco" Photo Exhibit Documents Chevron’s Toxic Devastation of the Ecuadorian Amazon Photos, footage and interviews available in English and Spanish.

(Note to media: The show runs at San Francisco City Hall from Nov 14 to Dec 30, 8am-8pm, Mon-Fri. The official launch is at City Hall on Nov 16, from 5:30pm to 7:30pm, with the program starting at 6:15pm. A press conference will be held on the lower level of City Hall at 11am on.Tuesday, Nov 15.

Ecuador Plaintiffs Allege Threat

2005 Energy Intelligence Group, Inc. | Threats have been made against the Ecuadorian leaders of an environmental lawsuit against Chevron and an international human rights commission should step in to help, says a petition filed Tuesday.Chevron is defending itself in Ecuadorian courts against accusations that one of its predecessor companies, Texaco, dumped

Chevron Rejects Liability Claim

Oil Daily | US supermajor Chevron has failed to disclose a potential multibillion dollar liability over alleged environmental contamination in Ecuador's Amazon jungle, according to the environmental organization Amazon Watch.The group says Chevron could be liable for clean-up costs of $6 billion to $10 billion as a result of a law