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    Pipeline Financing Vote Postponed

    The Washington Post | Concerns about the impact on a Peruvian rain forest and coastal reserve forced the Inter-American Development Bank yesterday to postpone for a week a vote to finance a controversial $ 1.6 billion natural gas project that involves two Texas energy companies with close ties to the White House.Members of Congress, worldwi

    July 31, 2003
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    Bank Delays Decision on Gas Pipeline

    Financial Times | The Inter-American Development Bank has delayed a decision on a controversial gas pipeline in Peru after failing to reach agreement about the environmental and social impact of the project.The IDB board on Wednesday postponed a vote, at the request of its president, on whether to approve $135m in finance for the Camise

    July 31, 2003
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    Bush, the Rainforest and a Gas Pipeline to Enrich His Friends

    Independent-UK | President George Bush is seeking funds for a controversial project to drive gas pipelines from pristine rainforests in the Peruvian Amazon to the coast.The plan will enrich some of Mr Bush's closest corporate campaign contributors while risking the destruction of rainforest, threatening its indigenous peoples and endan

    July 30, 2003
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    Letter sent from 13 U.S. Senators to the U.S. Treasury Secretary –the agency that directs U.S. voting decisions at IDB—and the head of the U.S. Export-Import Bank. The letter opposes public support for Camisea at this time.

    The Honorable John SnowSecretary of the TreasuryDepartment of the Treasury1500 Pennsylvania Avenue NWWashington DC 20220The Honorable Phillip MerrillChairman United States Export-Import Bank811 Vermont Ave, NWWashington DC 20571Dear Secretary Snow and Chairman Merr

    July 29, 2003
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    U.S. to Vote on Aid for Peruvian Gas Project

    The Washington Post | The Bush administration is preparing this week to vote on financial support for a controversial $1.6 billion natural gas project in Peru that some U.S. officials, members of Congress and worldwide environmental groups say has already begun damaging a pristine tropical rain forest in the Amazon.

    July 27, 2003
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    U'wa Communique

    Cubara, Colombia - The U’wa People, Children of God, Children of our Mother Earth, Lovers of the Natural World and of the SpiritsThe U’wa people are tired of the proliferation of false promises that the Colombian government has made to us.

    July 1, 2003
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    ChevronTexaco Deserves Award for International Destruction! Human Rights and Environmental Groups Protest ChevronTexaco’s Award for “international understanding” at World Affairs Council Annual Dinner

    San Francisco, CA - Members of Amazon Watch, Communities for a Better Environment, Project Underground and concerned community residents from around the Bay Area gathered outside of the World Affairs Council’s Annual Dinner at the Hilton Hotel in downtown San Francisco today to protest this years awardee...ChevronTexaco.

    June 24, 2003
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    Indigenous Leaders Bring Message to U.S., Gain International Attention

    From the Pachamama Office in Ecuador:In early May, leaders from the Achuar, Shuar, and Zápara peoples arrived at the international headquarters of Burlington Resources to manifest their unified opposition to the multi-national oil company’s operations in ancestral indigenous territories.

    June 1, 2003
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    Principled Finance? Do the Equator Principles Need More Teeth? Some Banks and Sponsors are Unfazed by what NGOs Call a Modest Step Forward for Environmental Thinking in Project Lending

    Project Finance Magazine | The sight of protestors outside of WestLB’s New York offices was the most visible sign of the latest meeting of projects and protest - at least for the lenders. Activists had targeted the landesbank for its arranging role on the OCP project in Ecuador.

    June 1, 2003
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    Amazonian Leaders Delegation Summary and Reflection

    BackgroundAfter filing a historic lawsuit in Lago Agrio, Ecuador, on May 7th, 2003, a 12-person delegation of indigenous leaders and campesinos – representing 30,000 rainforest peoples – traveled thousands of miles to ChevronTexaco’s hometown in San Ramon, CA to seek justice for the massive toxic dumping in

    May 23, 2003
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    Updated Schedule of Events for Ecuador Delegation to the Bay Area

    Wednesday, May 7- -Delegation arrives in San Francisco Friday, May 9- -6:30-8:30pm, Meet and Greet reception for the delegation at the Peace Lutheran ChurchPeace Lutheran Church3201 Camino Tassajara RdDanville, CA 94506(925) 648-7000Tuesday, May 13- -11am, Press Conferen

    May 23, 2003
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    ChevronTexaco’s Hometown Offers Resounding Sendoff to Rainforest Ecuadorians as They Vow to Return for Meeting with CEO David O’Reilly Local Clergy Calls On Chevron to Act with “Conscience” and Meet Indigenous Leaders Local Citizens and Studen

    San Ramon – After two weeks of meetings with the Ecuadorian delegates affected by operations of ChevronTexaco, religious leaders and other residents in the San Ramon-Danville area today agreed to organize a fact-finding mission to their Amazon communities.

    May 22, 2003
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    Indigenous Ecuadoreans ask ChevronTexaco to Clean Up Rain Forest

    Associated Press Newswires | San Ramon, California - Leaders of Ecuadorean indigenous communities who claim ChevronTexaco destroyed their rain forest home during decades of oil drilling have asked residents in the company's own hometown to press for a clean up of the mess.Flanked by local residents and environmental activists on Thursday, th

    May 22, 2003
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    Ecuadorians Demand Meeting

    Contra CostaTimes | The president of the Secoya Federation is a baby-faced 24-year-old who has traveled from the Ecuadorian rain forest to take on one of the Tri-Valley's biggest corporate citizens.Wilmer Marbin Piaguaje said ChevronTexaco Corp.

    May 22, 2003
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    Amazonians Adjust to America

    Tri-Valley Herald | San Ramon - Back home in the Oriente region of the Ecuadorean Amazon rain forest, members of the Cofan tribe walk for as long as 45 minutes to retrieve potable water.Here in San Ramon, it takes only a few seconds to turn on the tap.Such differences in culture are astounding to a group of native E

    May 22, 2003
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    ChevronTexaco’s Hometown Rallies Behind Ecuador Indigenous Delegation Amazon Rainforest Destruction Twice the Size of the Exxon Valdez Press Conference and March to Company headquarters Thursday at 11am

    Dressed in “traditional attire,” Toribio Aguinda, Wilmer Piaguaje, and seven other indigenous and forest community leaders from Ecuador, together with supporters, will engage in a final “barnstorm” tour of San Ramon to rally community support and call on ChevronTexaco CEO David O’Reilly for a meeting to resolve thei

    May 22, 2003
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