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Environment: Warnings on Risky Projects in Amazon Region

Inter Press Service | Washington, Oct. 1 - Investors from multinational corporations and financial lending institutions are being urged to weigh the potential environmental risks of investing in certain infrastructure projects in the Amazon.

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Tensions Rise in Venezuela's Amazon

Associated Press | El Dorado, Venezuela — The Pemon Indians rolled a huge log across the highway to block traffic. The tribe, some dressed in red loin cloths and their faces streaked with paint, was defending its piece of paradise.

Communique from the Pueblo U’wa

Cubara, ColombiaWe, the U’wa, declare to the government and its various entities, to Congress , to the different social organizations, human rights NGO’s, national and international environmentalists, to the oil companies and to the Colombian people in general, that we have united formally behind the stoppages and p

Fourth Day: 800 Venezuela Indians Continue Occupation of Highway Indigenous Leaders Hold Press Conference in Caracas on August 7 --- note: Associated Press reporter and photographer in the region---

El Dorado, Venezuela - For the fourth time in the past week, Over 800 indigenous people of the Imataca and Grand Savanna regions are gathered at kilometer 16 of the only highway between Venezuela and Brazil protesting a high voltage electrical transmission line being built through their rainforest homeland.

Los Tres Expedientes que están en la Corte Serán Conocidos por la Sala Plena CSJ Se Tardará Más en Decidir sobre Imataca

El Universal | Caracas - Por decisión del máximo tribunal del país, la Sala Plena será la única que conozca los tres expedientes relacionados con el caso de Imataca, los cuales fueron abiertos luego de recibir medidas cautelares innominadas y solicitudes de nulidad del decreto 1850, que permite la explotación minera en dicha reserva f

Controversial Amazon Power Line Gets Funding

Reuters | Caracas - A Latin American development bank on Tuesday granted a $55 million loan to build a controversial power line linking Venezuelan and Brazil through the Amazon jungle which is fiercely opposed by indigenous and environmental groups.

Venezuela Indians Defend Park

Associated Press Writer | Caracas, Venezuela — About 400 Indians blocked Venezuela's main highway to Brazil with huge logs to protest a high-voltage power line being built in the "Lost World'' of Amazon rain forests.

Amazonian Indian Tribes on the Barricades to Protest International Powerline Destruction of Their Rainforest Environment

VHeadline/VENews | Caracas - Venezuelan Pemon indians have set up roadblocks on the arterial continental highway from Brazil in a major protest over the construction of electricity power transmission lines which have cut a 400 kilometer (250 mile) swathe through tropical Amazon rainforest affecting some 5,500 acres in the ecologically sensitive

Venezuela Indians Defend Park

Associated Press | Caracas, Venezuela — About 400 Indians blocked Venezuela's main highway to Brazil with huge logs to protest a high-voltage power line being built in the "Lost World'' of Amazon rain forests.

Venezuela Indians Block Road to Protest Power Line

Reuters | Caracas - Hundreds of Venezuelan Indians blocked the main highway to Brazil on Tuesday to protest the construction of a power line connecting the two countries through their homelands.Indigenous leaders said construction of the 430-mile (690 km) link was ruining their livelihood and destroying vast tracts of national p

US Agency OKs $200 Mln for Gas Pipeline

Reuters | Washington - The U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) approved $200 million in financing Tuesday to help pay for a controversial natural gas pipeline project in Bolivia being developed by Enron Corp. (NYSE:ENE - news) and Royal Dutch/Shell Group .

OPIC Approves $200M Bolivian Loan

Associated Press | Washington - The Overseas Private Investment Corporation approved a $200 million loan today for a gas pipeline in Bolivia, a project opposed by environmental groups and some U.S. lawmakers. OPIC, which promotes U.S.

5 Arrested in Protest against Occidental

Los Angeles Times | Five environmentalists protesting Occidental Petroleum Corp.'s plan to build an oil pipeline in Colombia were arrested Wednesday on suspicion of trespassing and vandalism.

Environmentalists Detained in Anti-Oil Protest

Reuters | Los Angeles - Environmental activists chained themselves to an oil drum in front of Occidental Petroleum Co.'s headquarters here on Wednesday to protest the company's plans to drill on land claimed by a Colombian tribe.

Amazon Indigenous Groups Oppose Infrastructure Projects

Inter-Press Service | Washington - Indigenous groups in the Amazon Basin of Latin America, the most biologically diverse rainforest on earth, are pushing ahead to oppose infrastructure projects they believe will lead to the destruction of their homelands.