Oil Daily | Ecuadorean communities have taken to the US airwaves since late last week to oppose the merger of Chevron and Texaco.
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Venezuela's Deal to Help Ease Power Shortage in Brazil Sparks Controversy Indigenous Groups Say Their Wishes Have Been Ignored in the Rush to Build the New Power Line
Financial Times (London) | Slash your way through the dense foliage of Canaima National Park, Venezuela's top eco-tourist attraction, and sooner or later you will come across an unexpected monster in a clearing: 30 metres tall with four legs and humming menacingly. It is not a relic from the Jurassic period, nor a Steven Spielberg creation.
Amazon Watch Launches Mega-Project Report: "New Pipelines Threaten Intact Amazon Rainforest in Brazil"
Amazon Watch has just released a new Mega-project report entitled: "New Pipelines Threaten Intact Amazon Rainforest in Brazil". The 12-page report examines plans to construct two new pipelines to expand oil and gas production from the Urucu and Jurua gas fields in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon.
Ecuador: Ecuadorean Producers to Pay Military for Protection
Energy Compass | In a bid to improve security in areas bordering Colombia, the 16 private oil producers in Ecuador plus state Petroecuador have arranged a deal under which they can pay the military for protection.
Amazon Watch is building on more than 25 years of radical and effective solidarity with Indigenous peoples across the Amazon Basin.
Colombia Restricts News on Pipeline Bombs
Oil Daily | Colombia has cracked down on press coverage of attacks on its Cano Limon-Covenas oil export pipeline, after an intense wave of rebel attacks this year. Rebels have attacked the pipeline some 113 times this year.
Oxy Comes Up Dry in Samore
Energy Compass | US Occidental may wonder why it bothered. After spending eight years trying to win approval to drill in the Samore Block in eastern Colombia, it has just halted drilling on the Gibraltar-1 well after failing to find oil.
Communique to National and International Community Gibraltar 1, Cultural Triumph the U'wa Will Continue to Defend Our Mother Earth El Kera Chikara = Sacred Territory
Cubara, Colombia - Recently, the U.S multinational company Occidental of Colombia (OXY) publicly recognized the negative results regarding the expected petroleum bonanza of Gibraltar 1.
Colombia's U'wa Tribe and Supporters Celebrate Oxy's Failure to Find Oil End to Oil Drilling on the Tribe's Ancestral Land and Total De-Militarization Urged
The news long awaited by the Colombia's U'wa tribe and their thousands of supporters around the world has finally arrived: the Los Angeles-based Occidental Petroleum (OXY) announced Friday that it has failed to find oil at the Gibraltar 1 well site on the tribe's ancestral land in Northeastern Colombia.
Comunicado a la Opinión Pública Gibraltar: Triunfo Cultural los U´Wa Seguiremos Defendiendo a Nuestra Madre Tierra el Kera Chikara=Territorio Sagrado
Cubara, Colombia - Recientemente la empresa multinacional estadounidense de petróleo Occidental de Colombia, OXY, reconoció públicamente los resultados desalentadores frente a la expectativa de la bonanza petrolera de Gibraltar I, en territorio sagrado U´wa.
Joint Letter from International Organizations Regarding the Ocp Heavy Crude Pipeline in Ecuador
To:Dr. Friedel Neuber , Chairman Westdeutsche LandesBankP.O. Box 40199 Dusseldorf Herzogstrasse 15 40217 Dusseldorf, Germany Fax: 0049-211/826-6121 or 2588Mr.
JOINT LETTER FROM INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS REGARDING THE OCP HEAVY CRUDE PIPELINE IN ECUADOR
TO: Dr. Friedel Neuber , Chairman Westdeutsche LandesBankP.O. Box 40199 Dusseldorf Herzogstrasse 15 40217 Dusseldorf, Germany Fax: 0049-211/826-6121 or 2588 Mr.
Amazon Watch Alerta de Mega-Proyectos El nuevo oleoducto de crudos pesados en Ecuador
Promoviendo un segundo auge petrolero en la AmazoniaEl plan del gobierno ecuatoriano para construir el nuevo Oleoducto de Crudos Pesados (OCP)ha sido postergado repetidas veces durante los últimos diez años principal-mente por la inestabilidad económica y política del país y los riesgos provenientes del proy
Occidental Finds No Oil at Colombian Siriri Well
Reuters | Bogota, Colombia - Occidental Petroleum (NYSE:OXY - news) has stopped drilling at its Siriri field in Colombia and is considering the future of the project after finding gas and condensates but no oil, a company official said on Friday.
Amazon Watch Mega-Project Alert Fueling A Second Oil Boom in the Amazon
The Ecuadorian Government ’s plan to build the new oleoducto de Crudos Pesados (OCP)has been repeatedly delayed for 10 years – -mostly due to the country ’s eco-nomic and political instability and the project ’s perceived risks.However,on June 7, 2001,amidst widespread controversy and protest,the Nobo
The New Heavy Crude Pipeline in Ecuador: Fueling a Second Oil Boom in the Amazon
See PDF version of Report in English or En Español Amazon Watch has just released its new Mega-project report entitled: “The New Heavy Crude Pipeline in Ecuador: Fueling
Stinging From Nonstop Pipeline Attacks, Oxy Decides to Freeze Investment in Colombia
Oil Daily | US-based Occidental Petroleum has decided to "freeze" its investments in Colombia until a definitive solution is reached regarding leftist guerrilla attacks on the Cano-Limon Covenas pipeline.Guimer Dominquez, president of Occidental de Colombia, said the "revision of operations" is being undertaken on the advice of Ox
News Analysis – Environmental and Human Rights Groups -- Call on U.S. to Support Colombian Inquiry Oxy’s Cozy Relationship with Colombian Military Turns Fatal Oil Company Threatening U’wa People Implicated in Infamous Santo Domingo Massacre
Los Angeles - New evidence surfaced late last week in a Colombia inquiry exposing active collaboration between security forces protecting oil operations of the Los Angeles-based Occidental Petroleum (OXY) and the notorious Colombian military in one of the country’ deadliest attacks on civilians¾a relationship environmental
Americans Blamed in Colombia Raid
San Francisco Chronicle | Bogota - Three American civilian airmen providing airborne security for a U.S.
The Americas: Ecuador Pays a High Environmental Price for Extracting Its Oil: New Pipeline Plans are Not Being Helped by a Big Spillage that Has Polluted Rivers and Scarred the Landscape
Financial Times | Patches of oil were still burning across the Andean hillside on Tuesday, the day after mudslides ruptured Ecuador's crude pipeline, spilling its black cargo near Papallacta and into rivers feeding the Amazon basin.
Testimony Sought in Bombing Probe
Associated Press | Bogota, Colombia - Investigators want to subpoena three U.S. civilians who allegedly helped pinpoint targets from a plane for a Colombian air force crew that stands accused of killing 17 villagers, an official said Thursday.
Mudslide Ruptures, Halts Throughput on Sote Pipeline
Oil Daily | The mudslide that ruptured Ecuador's main crude oil pipeline, the Sistema Oleoducto Trans Ecuatoriano (Sote), prompted Ecuador to declare force majeure Tuesday, and will cause transportation delays for the consortium of seven oil companies, two of them from the US, that share transportation and production rights with state-ow
Consorcio Espera Comenzar los Trabajos en Agosto Próximo en el 2003 Estará Listo el OCP la Constructora, que Invertirá US$ 1.100 Millones, Espera Otros Documentos, que Estarían Listos Dentro de 10 Días
El Universo | QUITO — El consorcio OCP Limited espera iniciar los trabajos de construcción del Oleoducto de Crudos Pesados (OCP) en agosto próximo, una vez que obtenga tres permisos adicionales a la licencia ambiental que recibió ayer del Ministerio de Ambiente en una ceremonia efectuada en el Palacio de Gobierno, con la presencia del
Energía * Hoya, la Ministra del Ambiente lo Hará Oficial en la Presidencia OCP Ecuador S.A. Recibirá Hoy la Licencia Ambiental
El Comercio | El segundo punto crítico para la construcción del nuevo oleoducto está superado. Ayer, la ministra del Ambiente, Lourdes Luque, informó que la aprobación al estudio de impacto ambiental del OCP está listo.
Environmentalists Affirm Position in Defense of LIFE as Construction for OCP pipeline is Given Green Light
Quito - On June 6, 2001, the Second Court of the Constitutional Tribunal in Quito ruled against the Constitutional Injunction that Acción Ecológica and CONAIE had filed in order to avoid the environmental, social and human damages that construction of the OCP pipeline will bring.
Quito — Ecologistas Insisten en que la Ruta Norte del OCP Afectará a las Especies que Habitan en el Bosque Protector de Mindo la OCP Limited Recibirá Hoy la Licencia Ambiental el Tribunal de lo Contencioso Negó un Recurso de Amparo al Contrato de la
El Comercio | Quito — Hoy en el Palacio de Gobierno, la ministra de Medio Ambiente, Lourdes Luque, entregará a la empresa OCP Limited la licencia ambiental para que inicie la construcción del nuevo Oleoducto de Crudos Pesados (OCP), ratificando a la ruta norte como la de menor impacto ambiental.
Poll: Saving Forest is Top Priority in Amazon
Reuters | Brasilia, Brazil - Preserving the rain forest ranks as the top priority for the 20 million people living in Brazil's Amazon, the first such study polling the region's population showed on Wednesday. Saving the rain forest was listed as the No.
Drug Fight in Colombia Questioned
The Associated Press | Washington - Fifteen years ago, Eagle Aviation Service and Technology Inc. helped Oliver North run guns to Nicaraguan rebels in what would become known as the Iran-Contra affair. Today, the company flies State Department planes on dangerous drug eradication missions in Colombia.
PETRÓLEO: OCP Insiste en la Ruta Norte
El Comercio | El consorcio "OCP Limited", liderado por Repsol-YPF, entregó hoy su respuesta a las observaciones ambientales efectuadas por el Gobierno ecuatoriano sobre la ruta para la construcción del oleoducto de crudos pesados.
