Mar 06, 2010 | Digital Journal
Peruvian Indigenous take on U.S. giant Occidental Petroleum
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| In a battle that pits the 'little guy' against the 'big guy,' the Achuar, an Indigenous people from Peru have taken on Occidental Petroleum with the help of U.S. based group, Amazon Watch.
Los Angeles, CA - Launched in 2007 in the United States, an American judge had decided the case should be heard in Peru. The Achuar an...
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Mar 04, 2010 | Mother Nature Network
Oil giant faces off with the Amazon
California 9th Circuit Court hears landmark case against oil giant brought by Peruvian indigenous leaders.
Oxy Petroleum claims 'inconvenience.'
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| When a California-based oil corporation claims it would be "inconvenient" to defend an environmental lawsuit in California (just 10 miles away from their headquarters) one is likely to suspect ulterior motives... especially when the alternative is to try the case in Peru.
More than 80% of the population of Peru believes thei...
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Mar 03, 2010 | Amazon Watch and EarthRights International
Appeals Court to Decide if Oil Giant Will Face Suit in U.S. for Massive Environmental Pollution in Amazon
Indigenous Achuar From the Peruvian Amazon Face Off
Against Occidental Petroleum Over Destruction of Pristine Rainforest
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| Footage and Interviews with Plaintiffs and Legal Team Available in English & Spanish
(Los Angeles, CA) – A key hearing was held this morning in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in the landmark environmental and public health case brought by indigenous Peruvian Achuar and the U.S. NGO Amazon Watch against Los Angeles-base...
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Mar 02, 2010 | Amazon Watch, Rainforest Action Network, AVAAZ.org, CREDO
Pressure Grows for Chevron to Clean Up Ecuador
Indigenous Ecuadorean leader travels from Amazon rainforest to California to deliver 325,000+ letters urging Chevron's new CEO John Watson to clean up the oil giant's toxic legacy
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| San Francisco, CA – Today, an Indigenous Ecuadorean leader attempted to deliver letters from over 325,000 people urging Chevron's new CEO John Watson to clean up his company's toxic oil contamination in Ecuador. Emergildo Criollo traveled from his home in the Amazon rainforest to deliver a strong message from his community and s...
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Mar 01, 2010 | Amazon Watch, EarthRights International
Indigenous Achuar From Peruvian Amazon Face Off
Against Occidental Petroleum in Crucial Ninth Circuit Hearing
Hearing to Decide Whether Occidental Petroleum Should Face Charges in US Court For Massive Environmental Pollution Liability in Peruvian Amazon
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| (Los Angeles, CA) – A key hearing will be held in the Ninth Circuit Court on Wednesday, March 3, in the landmark environmental and public health case brought by the indigenous Peruvian Achuar community and the U.S.-based NGO Amazon Watch against oil giant Occidental Petroleum (OXY). The hearing will likely determine whether OXY ...
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Feb 18, 2010 | Amazon Watch, Bank Information Center
Inter-American Development Bank Governors
Challenged to Account for Capital Increase Request
Letter to IDB Governors Demands Transparency and Evidence of Structural Reforms Before the Upcoming Vote on the Capital Increase in Cancun
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| (Washington, DC) – This week, more than 100 civil society organizations from 18 countries stepped up pressure on the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), sending a letter urging its governors to explain how the Bank's failing grades in transparency, sustainability, and accountability will be repaired before approving managemen...
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Feb 18, 2010 | Amazon Watch, Bank Information Center
La Junta de Gobernadores del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo son llamados a rendir cuentas sobre el pedido de Aumento de Capital
Carta a los Gobernadores demanda mayor Transparencia, rendición de cuentas y pruebas de las reformas estructurales necesarias antes de la aprobación de la solicitud de Incremento de Capital
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| (Washington, DC) - Esta semana, más de 90 organizaciones de la sociedad civil de 17 países llamaron la atención al Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID), exigiendo a la Junta de Gobernadores mayor transparencia, rendición de cuentas y pruebas de que las reformas estructurales necesarias (sean aprobadas/ implementadas, pregu...
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Feb 16, 2010
A second hydrocarbon boom threatens the Peruvian Amazon:
trends, projections, and policy implications
A report by Matt Finer and Marti Orta-Martinez,
Environmental Research Letters
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| A rapid and unprecedented proliferation of oil and gas concessions threatens the mega-diverse Peruvian Amazon. That is one of the central conclusions from a pair of researchers who have, for the first time, documented the full history of hydrocarbon activities in the region and made projections about expected levels of activity ...
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Feb 12, 2010 | Amazon Watch
Peru Set to Open Last Refuges of the Amazon
to Oil and Gas Drilling
National Indigenous Organization AIDESEP Rejects Impending Auction
of New Oil Blocks in Amazonian Territory
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| Houston – Perupetro, the oil and gas-licensing arm of the Peruvian government, confirmed plans yesterday to auction another 19 hydrocarbon concessions in the Amazon rainforest. With these new concessions, two-thirds of the Peruvian Amazon are now earmarked for oil and gas drilling.
In the wake of the announcement, Peru's nat...
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Feb 10, 2010
AIDESEP Decries the Peruvian Government's Oil Rush
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In light of the Peruvian State's push for the granting of oil and gas concessions in our Amazonian rainforest, AIDESEP would like the Peruvian and international citizens and decision-makers to know the following:
1) We condemn the government of Peru for not fulfilling its obligations and failing to protect indigenous te...
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