Reuters | Quito, Ecuador - A coalition of environmental groups urged Ecuador's Energy Ministry on Thursday to reject an application for an environmental permit to build a long-awaited heavy crude oil pipeline.It is the first time the five environmental groups, led by Fundacion Natura, have officially opposed the project, along w
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Ecuador Group Files Lawsuit Against Repsol
Oil & Gas Journal | Quito (EFE via COMTEX) - Environmental, human-rights and Indians groups filed a lawsuit with the Constitutional Court Tuesday to stop Repsol-YPF from building a new oil pipeline.At least 100 protesters, meanwhile, peacefully took over Energy Minister Pablo Teran's office, to force him to listen to their compliant.
Destruction of Amazon Jungle Hits 5 - Year High
Reuters | Brasilia, Brazil - Destruction of Brazil's Amazon rain forest jumped last year to the highest levels since 1995, prompting the government on Tuesday to pledge new controls to reduce deforestation.Logging in the world's largest tropical forest reached 7,659 square miles last year, up from 6,664 square miles in 1999, acc
Indigenous & Environmental Groups File Lawsuit Challenging the OCP US & German Banks on the Hot Seat for Financing the New Crude Pipeline in Ecuadorian Amazon
Major international environmental groups sent a letter this week to J.P. Morgan Chase, Citigroup, and Deutsche Bank raising serious concerns about a controversial new Ecuadorian oil pipeline, known as the OCP (Oleoducto de Crudo Pesado) and urged the banks to refrain from further financing the project.
Communique to National and International Community
The U'wa people inform the National and International Community about the current state of our TERRITORIAL, CULTURAL, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND SOCIAL process against the OIL EXPLORATION PROJECT IN THE AREA OF THE GIBRALTAR WELL UNDERTAKEN BY OCCIDENTAL PETROLEUM MULTINATIONAL OF COLOMBIA INC., AND WITH APPROVAL FROM THE COLOMBIAN G
Amazon Watch is building on more than 25 years of radical and effective solidarity with Indigenous peoples across the Amazon Basin.
Comunicado a la Opinion Publica Nacional e Internacional
El Pueblo U'wa informa a la Opinión Pública Nacional e Internacional el estado actual del proceso de DEFENSA TERRITORIAL, CULTURAL, AMBIENTAL Y SOCIAL adelantando en contra del PROYECTO DE EXPLORACION PETROLERA EN EL ÁREA POZO GIBRALTAR, VEREDA CEDEÑO, CORREGIMIENTO DE GIBRALTAR, MUNICIPIO DE TOLEDO, DEPARTAMENTO DE NORTE
America's Best & Worst Boards
Fortune | Lists the best and worst governance by the boards of U.S.-based companies. Notes the best as Coca-Cola, Intel, Pfizer, Target, and Texas Instruments and the worst as Advanced Micro Devices, Archer Daniels Midland, Maxxam, Occidental Petroleum, and Warnaco.
Colombian Tribe is Threatened by an Encroaching Civil War
The New York Times | Simonorwa, Colombia - Spaniards in clanging armor trudged up the mountain first, subjugating Indians in the search for gold. Farmers, clear-cutting forests, came next.
Multitudinaria Oposicion a Ruta del OCP en Reunion Publica
San Miguel de los Bancos. - Con pancartas, pitos, tambores y consignas centenares de pobladores del Noroccidente de Pichincha manifestaron su oposición contundente al paso del Oleoducto de Crudos Pesados (OCP) por este sector en una reunión pública hoy.
Widespread Ecuadorian Opposition to OCP Pipeline Route at Public Meeting
San Miguel de los Bancos - With posters, whistles, drums and chants, hundreds of people from the Northwest Pichincha province of Ecuador expressed their firm opposition in a public meeting today to the passage of the Heavy Crude Pipeline (OCP-Oleoducto de Crudos Pesados) through the region.The public hearing, organized
Comentarios de DE Acción Ecológica a los Estudios Ambientales del OCP
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Oleoducto * Ambiente Hizo 72 Observaciones y No Dará la Licencia si No Se Recogen OCP: el Diálogo Empezará el Lunes
El Comercio | La Empresa que hizo el estudio de impacto ambiental dice que la ruta norte no es negociable. Sin embargo, siguen las dudas. Oleoducto sí, por Mindo no". Con esta frase los ambientalistas resumen su posición frente a la construcción del Oleoducto de Crudos Pesados (OCP).
Observaciones A La Evaluacion De Impactos Ambientales Para El Proyecto Oleoducto De Crudos Pesados
Descarga el informe en el formato PDF (78 kb)Introducción:Las ONG que suscribimos el presente informe, hemos seguido atentamente el proceso de adjudicación para la construcción del Nuevo Oleoducto de Crudos Pesa
Chevron's Board Urged to Disclose Texaco's Liabilities in the Ecuadorian Amazon in the Merger Proceedings Evidence Detailing More than Three Hundred and Fifty Contaminated Sites Handed to Chevron's Chairman
Los Angeles, CA - Chevron's Board of Directors were put on notice at the company's annual meeting yesterday that the company is legally required to notify the SEC and their shareholders of the law suit and the environmental liabilities it would inherit following the merger with Texaco with respect to hundreds of contaminated
U'wa Leader and Activists Target Occidental Petroleum's Largest Investor Protests in Seven Cities Call on Bernstein/Alliance Capital /AXA Financial to Divest from Occidental and the Deadly Oil Project in Colombian Cloudforest Region
New York, NY - U'wa tribal chief accompanied by human rights and environmental activists demonstrated outside the offices of investment giant Bernstein/Alliance Capital today to protest the company's holdings in the Los Angeles based-Occidental Petroleum (OXY)- under fire for drilling on the land of the traditional U'wa peopl
Protests Urge Sanford Bernstein Divest in Occidental
Reuters | New York - Protesters on Thursday tried to meet with the management of investment group Sanford Bernstein/Alliance Capital to urge the company to divest its shares of oil company Occidental Corp.
Le Urgieron a la Junta Directiva de Chevron que se Divulgaran las Responsabilidades de Texaco en la Amazonía Ecuatoriana Durante los Procedimientos de Fusión (Merger) Evidencia Detallando Más de Trescientos Cincuenta Sitios Contaminados Heredados por e
Los Angeles, CA - Se le aviso a la Junta Directiva de Chevron que se requiere que la compañía notifique legalmente a la Comisión de Seguridades e Intercambio (SEC) – una agencia del gobierno de los Estados Unidos – y a accionistas de Chevron sobre el juicio y las responsabilidades ecológicas que heredaría
Oil Pipeline Said to Threaten Eco-Tourism in Ecuador
Miami Herald | Mindo, Ecuador - Benjamin Mora isn't terribly worried about the fate of the black-breasted puffleg hummingbird that's been spotted in the dark-green ridgeline that shadows his village of Mindo.
Protesters Call for End to Occidental Drilling Project Energy: Activists at Firm's Annual Meeting Say Test Well is on Sacred Native Land in Colombia
Los Angeles Times | Activists targeted Occidental Petroleum Corp.'s annual meeting Friday to press for an end to an oil-drilling project on what they say is sacred native land in Colombia, continuing what has become a noisy and angry tradition for the Los Angeles oil company.
U'wa Tribal Chief Sends Message to Shareholders to Divest from Occidental Petroleum and Vows to Continue Resistance against Drilling in Colombia
Los Angeles, CA - Roberto Perez, President of the U'wa Traditional Authorities of Colombia once again took center stage at a demonstration today at Occidental Petroleum's Annual Meeting in Santa Monica and delivered his people's message to supporters outside and shareholders inside the meeting.
Oxy Shareholders Stall Proposal
The Associated Press | Santa Monica, Calif - With protesters rallying outside, shareholders of Occidental Petroleum Corp.
Event Examines Native Peoples and Colonialism Participants Will Explore Issues Ranging from the Environment to Racial Identity
Los Angeles Times | Claremont - Prominent activists from around the world will gather at Scripps College this weekend to explore the history and impact of colonialism on indigenous people. Among the participants will be the leader of a Colombian tribe that once threatened mass suicide over a planned oil project near its ancestral home.
U'wa Tribal Leader Kicks-off U.S. Tour to Expose the "Crude Logic" behind the U.S. Drug War in Colombia
Los Angeles, CA - Roberto Perez, President of the U'wa people of Colombia will arrive today in Los Angeles for his National Tour (April 17-28) to speak out against Plan Colombia and the corporate interest behind the so-called "drug war." The U'wa people, a peaceful tribe of 5,000 who live in the cloud forests of northeastern
Open Letter to Occidental Petroleum's President, Members of the Board of Directors and Shareholder
We, the U'wa, write to you once more to express our worry over the operations your company continues to move forward on our sacred territory "KERA CHIKARA" through the GIBRALTAR AREA Petroleum Exploration Project, in the town of Cedeño, hamlet of Gibraltar, municipality of Toledo, department of Norte de Santander.
Communiqué to the International and National Public Opinion
On March 21 and April 01, 2001, we had a meeting in Saravena (Arauca) with the social organizations of Arauca and of Cubará represented in: the Asociación Departamental de Usuarios Campesinos-ADUC (Departmental Association of User Farmers), the Central Unitaria de Trabajadores CUT (Workers' Unitary Headquarters) - Arauca Su
Comunicado a la Opinion Publica Nacional e Internacional
Los días 31 de marzo y 01 de abril de 2001 nos reunimos en Saravena (Arauca) las organizaciones sociales de Arauca y de Cubará, Boyacá, representadas en: la Asociación Departamental de Usuarios Campesinos ADUC, la Central Unitaria de Trabajadores CUT - Subdirectiva Arauca, la Asociación de Cabildos Mayores Uwa, ASOUWA, l
Ecuador Team Mission
The team was deployed on a month-long mission to Ecuador (March 8-April 9, 2001). This mission was organized in response to repeated requests from several Ecuadorian indigenous organizations facing threats from new oil projects.
THE MINIMIZATION OF NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBAL CULTURE by THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY & OCCIDENTAL PETROLEUM
The Kitanemuk Tribe of Tejon Indians has for several years tried to secure a commitment from DOE and OXY that they will provide adequate protection of the 91+ culturally sensitive sites on the Elk Hills property Oxy purchased from DOE in 2/1998.
U.S. Anti-Drug Strategy Accused of Killing Colombian Food Crops Narcotics Official Defends Quality of Satellite Intelligence, Says Spraying isn't Random
The Dallas Morning News | Colombia's national ombudsman has issued a stinging critique of a U.S.-funded drug-crop eradication campaign, saying that "indiscriminate" herbicide spraying had wiped out food crops across southern Colombia.
