IPS - Inter Press Service | The main public investor in a controversial gas pipeline in Peru's Amazon rainforest that has ruptured four times already appears adamant in not bowing to pressure from green groups demanding a full investigation after a study asserted that the pipeline is shoddily built and likely to break again.The Washington-based I
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Environment-Peru: Congress to Investigate Amazon Pipeline
IPS - Inter Press Service | The Peruvian Congress will investigate the star project of foreign investors in Peru: the $1.6 billion Camisea pipeline that carries natural gas from the heart of the Amazon jungle to the Pacific coast.The chairman of Peru's congressional Environment Committee, Walter Alejos Calderún, announced that he would ask Minis
More Pressure On SEC To Investigate Chevron For Hiding Massive Environmental Liability In Rainforest
San Francisco, CA – Chevron distorted the results of a court report in Ecuador to hide a multi-billion liability it faces in a landmark environmental trial in the Amazon over what locals dub the “Rainforest Chernobyl”, Amazon Watch has informed the Securities and Exchange Commission in a follow-up letter to a complaint
BID, Gobierno Peruano y El Consorcio del Oleoducto del Amazonas evaden preguntas y criticas sobre los fracasos de Camisea Las comunidades indígenas y el bosque tropical más renombrado del mundo se encuentran amenazados con 16 nuevos contratos de hidroc
**La calidad de la cantidad sobre difusión de los impactos de la tubería está disponible según requerimiento**PARA PUBLICACION INMEDIATAMartes, Febrero 28(Washington D.C.) Las organizaciones ambientalistas e indígenas de derechos criticaron hoy al Ejecutivo Senior del Banco Interamericano de D
IDB, Peruvian Government and Amazon Pipeline Consortia Evade Questions and Criticism about Camisea Failures Indigenous Communities and World-Renowned Rainforest Threatened More Than Ever as 16 New Hydrocarbon Contracts Get Underway
** Broadcast Quality Footage of Pipeline Impacts Available Upon Request **(Washington D.C.) – Environmental and indigenous rights organizations today criticized the senior management of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) for failing to attend a public “consultation” on the spill-prone Camisea gas p
Amazon Watch is building on more than 25 years of radical and effective solidarity with Indigenous peoples across the Amazon Basin.
Spill-Prone Amazon Pipeline Constructed with Corroded Piping and Unqualified Welders, Says Independent Report - IDB, Hunt Oil Flouted International, Peruvian Laws in Rush to Build Pipeline on Indigenous Land in Renowned Peruvian Rainforest - ** Press
Broadcast Quality Footage of Pipeline Impacts Available Upon Request(Washington D.C.) – An independent report into Peru’s Camisea gas project, a major recipient of Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) funding, has concluded that the spill-prone pipeline was shoddily built by unqualified welders using corroded pipi
E-Tech International: Evaluation Of Camisea Project Piping Failures and Long-Term Solutions
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Environmental Firm Warns on Peru Pipeline
Associated Press | Washington - A natural gas pipeline project in Peru's southernAmazon that has suffered four leaks in its first 15 months of operationcould rupture again at six different points due to poor construction,according to an environmental consultancy firm.E-Tech International, based in San Diego, Calif., pla
Peru Camisea Gas Pipe to Leak Again – Report
Reuters | Lima - Peru's Camisea gas pipeline, which has leaked four times since it began pumping to Lima in mid-2004, will probably rupture again because of its poor construction, a US environmental consultancy said on Monday.San Diego-based E-Tech International, which hired engineers involved in Camisea's construction for its r
Shoddy Work Plagues Major Peru Gas Project
Inter Press Service | Washington - A controversial gas pipeline in Peru touted by its financial backers as a global development model is marred by shoddy construction work that has damaged the region's fragile ecosystems and harmed the local indigenous people, according to an independent audit to be released next week.
Ecuador Reaches Truce with Oil Protesters
AP | Quito, Ecuador - Ecuador's military and Napo province officials brokered a truce early Thursday, bringing a temporary end to violent protests that have interrupted the flow of crude in the nation's two main oil pipelines."After these recent events in our province we have come to believe as authorities that it is time t
South America: Mega-Pipeline - Costly and Controversial
InterPress Service News Agency | Caracas - A proposed South American mega-pipeline that would carry natural gas southwards from the Caribbean Sea across the Amazon jungle to Brazil and Argentina is still just a dream.
Two U.S. Senators Express Concern Over Chevron Lobbying Tactics In Nation’s Capitol Sens. Leahy and Obama Ask USTR Not To Let Chevron Interfere In Ecuador Trade Talks
Washington D.C – Already under fire for its record profits, Chevron is coming under increased scrutiny in the nation’s capital over its attempts to use U.S.
Group Claims Chevron Hasn’t Owned up to Ecuador Liability
EcoAmericas | As its pollution trial in Ecuador creeps along, the oil giant Chevron is being accused by a U.S.
Woes Mount for Oil Firms in Ecuador
The Christian Science Monitor | Lago Agrio, Ecuador - No one said running a multinational company waseasy.
Group Asks SEC to Probe Chevron’s Handling of Ecuador Case
Oil Daily | Amazon Watch has asked the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to investigate Chevron for violating its regulations by failing to inform shareholders about the environmental liabilities involved in a decade long class action lawsuit in Ecuador.The suit, originally filed in New York in 1993, is made up of 80 com
Chevron, Plaintiffs Dispute Findings of Court Experts Report
Business News Americas | US oil company Chevron (NYSE: CVX) and plaintiffs against the company in a lawsuit over environmental remediation by Chevron's former subsidiary Texpet in Ecuador's Amazon region are disputing the interpretation of a technical report by a group of court-appointed experts in the case.Attorneys representing some 30,000 r
Two Senators Urge USTR Not to Intervene in Suit
Roll Call | Two Democratic Senators have sent U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman a letter urging the trade negotiator’s office not to intervene in a lawsuit filed against Chevron in Ecuador.Sens.
Chevron Slammed in New Court Report for Leaving Toxins in Rainforest After Fraud Complaint to SEC, Chevron Tries to “Spin” Shareholders with Misleading Press Bulletin
Quito – Chevron has issued a press release misrepresenting the results of a court report in a historic trial that found life-threatening levels of toxic contamination at one of the company’s well sites, say technical advisors to the Amazon Defense Coalition, the group representing 30,000 people suing the oil giant.
Amazon Watch Asks SEC to Investigate Chevron for Governance Violations Over Ecuador Catastrophe Chevron Management Hiding From Shareholders Potential Multi-Billion Dollar Legal Liability Over “Rainforest Chernobyl”, Group Says
San Francisco, CA – Amazon Watch, the San Francisco based environmental organization, today formally requested that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigate the Chevron Corp.
Exclusive: Selling the Amazon for a Handful of Beads
AlterNet | Scanning bookshelves in his tiny law office in Quito, Ecuador, Bolivar Beltran's disdain for Big Oil is as legible as the contracts that map their nefarious ways."These were all negotiated in secret," says the soft-spoken attorney and Ecuadorian congressional aide, explaining how he used a lawsuit last year to obtain p
Chevron Wins 2006 Corporate “Irresponsibility” Award In Davos For Contaminating The Amazon Rainforest
Davos, Switzerland – Chevron’s troubled brand image took another battering today after the California-based oil giant won the 2006 Public Eye on Davos Award for corporate irresponsibility in the environment category during a ceremony coinciding with the Davos World Economic Forum.Chevron (formerly ChevronTexaco) ha
Oil and Gas Zones Cover One-Quarter of the Peruvian Amazon
Environment News Service | The Peruvian Amazon, a region that still holds some of the most pristine biodiverse rainforests on Earth, is facing an unprecedented wave of new oil and gas exploration.“Around 54 million acres of remote and intact rainforest is now zoned for oil and gas activities in Peru,” said Dr.
Oil Boom a Bust for Us, Villagers Say in Court Ecuadorian, Nigerian Cases Seek Compensation from Chevron
Associated Press | San Francisco - A young boy holds out a deformed hand. A woman is missing a lower leg that was amputated to remove a tumor.
