Fast Forward Weekly | Talisman Energy is facing continuing opposition to its oil exploration and testing in a remote area of Peru.
All: 2008
Shareholders, Wall Street Concerned Over Chevron’s $27 Billion Environmental Liability in Ecuador
Latest In Long Series of Setbacks for Oil Giant
San Francisco (December 8, 2008) – An increase in Chevron’s potential environmental liability in Ecuador to $27 billion is causing concern among Wall Street analysts and shareholders that the oil giant has failed to set aside sufficient reserves and has not fully disclosed its risk for what could be one of the largest civ
Indígenas representantes de comunidad U'wa pidieron en Nueva York veto a Ecopetrol
Portafolio | Con apoyo de ONG norteamericana Amazon Watch, dos líderes se reunieron con representantes del JP Morgan y con una docena de entidades financieras para solicitarles que no compren acciones."La empresa está violando los derechos indígenas con su explotación petrolera en el territorio ancestral U'wa", según Andrew Mi
Chevron's $27 Billion Liability in Ecuador's Amazon Confirmed by Team of Independent Scientists
Hundreds of Cancer Deaths Due to Ecological Devastation
Quito, Ecuador (December 1, 2008) – An increase in Chevron's potential environmental liability in Ecuador's Amazon to $27 billion is “reasonable” given new scientific data about groundwater contamination and hundreds of additional cancer deaths due to oil contamination, according to a team of scientists who have reviewe
Amazon in Focus 2008
In celebration of our 12th year protecting the Amazon rainforest and its indigenous peoples, Amazon Watch released
Amazon Watch is building on more than 25 years of radical and effective solidarity with Indigenous peoples across the Amazon Basin.
Chevron Hires Global Warming Denier as Consultant
Oil Giant Charged With Hypocrisy for Ad Campaign Touting “Green” Image While Humanitarian Crisis Festers In Amazon
Washington, D.C – Chevron has hired a “scientist” affiliated with a think tank dedicated to denying the threat of global warming while it spends tens of millions of dollars on a national advertising campaign to promote a "green" image.The Chevron consultant, Douglas Southgate, is actually an “environmental econ
Chevron Estimate for Amazon Damages Rises by $11 Billion
Bloomberg | Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) – Chevron Corp., which acquired Texaco Inc. in 2001, said a consultant in Ecuador raised by $11 billion his estimate of damages the company may have to pay for pollution in the Amazon allegedly caused by Texaco.
A CLIMATE GIFT FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS . . . Ecuador Seeks to Commercialize Rainforest
Der Spiegel | Ecuador is the first country in the world to announce plans to leave the oil reserves beneath its rainforests in the ground.
U.S. Congressman Finds "Humanitarian Crisis" In Ecuador's Amazon Rainforest
Over 30,000 Ecuadorians Drink From Contaminated Water Sources
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IN ECUADOR, MASS MOBILIZATIONS AGAINST MINING CONFRONT PRESIDENT CORREA
Upside Down World | In Ecuador, thousands of indigenous, campesinos, Afro-descendants and environmentalists took to the streets on Monday, protesting the pending mining law and government failure to fully apply a mining mandate passed by the National Constituent Assembly in April.With strong turnout in five different parts of the country,
Colombian Indigenous Travel to New York to Urge Investors Not to Buy Shares of Colombian State Oil Company Ecopetrol
U’wa leaders spoke with representatives of JP Morgan Chase and potential investors to voice concerns over Ecopetrol’s activity on their ancestral lands
Washington D.C. — Two leaders of Colombia’s U’wa community traveled to New York City last week to meet with investment firms, urging them not to buy shares of the Colombian state oil company Ecopetrol.
Colombia's U'wa People Call for Cancellation of Ecopetrol's Oil Project JP Morgan Chase Urged to Break Financial Ties with Ecopetrol
The U'wa People of Colombia The U'wa are a peaceful indigenous community of 6,000 who live traditionally in the remote Andes of northeastern Colombia on the border with Venezuela.
Talisman says it will stay in Peru
Calgary Herald | Talisman Energy will continue to work in Peru's Amazon jungle, in spite of requests from an environmental group to cease drilling in the area.Talisman spokesman Barry Nelson said Thursday the company has been in close contact with communities in the area where Talisman is working, a 75,000 square-kilometre area called
Talisman braces for jungle standoff
Financial Post | CALGARY - Talisman Energy Inc.
Amazon Watch's Statement on Talisman's Oil Project in the Peruvian Amazon
Talisman Urged to Suspend Operations in Block 64 Pending Resolution of Conflict with Indigenous Communities
(San Francisco, CA)-Amazon Watch issues this statement following a telephone meeting yesterday with officials from the Calgary-based Talisman Energy.
Peruvian tribesmen target Alberta oil firm
Edmonton Sun | CALGARY – Peruvian tribesmen are threatening to physically halt the operations of Calgary-based petroleum producer Talisman Energy in their region over fears of environmental devastation.Members of the Achuar community in northern Peru have given a Nov.
Perú: Histórica decisión municipal reconoce propiedad de territorio indígena
La Voz de la Selva | Con ocho votos a favor y una abstención el Concejo Municipal provincial de Datém del Marañon aprobó la ordenanza municipal 0012-2008-CM-MPDM, que establece el procedimiento autónomo de ordenamiento y zonificación territorial para los pueblos indígenas de esta provincia.La decisión municipal ha sido calificada c
Colombia: Indígenas mantienen movilización
Prensa Latina | Las comunidades indígenas colombianas se mantienen movilizadas y anunciaron que el 10 de noviembre marcharán hacia Bogotá para continuar reclamando sus derechos.Ese día unos 10 mil indígenas del departamento del Cauca emprenderán desde la ciudad de Cali una caminata hacia Bogotá, como parte de la movilización d
Colombia's indigenous protest against Uribe
The Real News Network | Thousands gather for 62-mile march to demand justice and land
Escuela Senen Soi
As a response to increasing threats from logging, oil and gas drilling, industrial agriculture, and mining, the Escuela Senen Soi was launched in 2007 as a training program by and for indigenous leaders of the Peruvian Amazon.
COLOMBIA: Where Dialogue Seems Impossible
IPS | BOGOTA, Oct 28 (IPS) - Dialogue – or, more accurately, the lack thereof – was the common denominator in two high-profile events Sunday in the western Colombian city of Cali, demonstrating to what extent this vehicle of mutual understanding is missing in this civil war-torn South American country.Former
Amazon Defense Coalition: High-Stakes Trial in San Francisco Focuses Attention on Chevron’s Growing Human Rights Problems Around Globe
Oil Giant Seems Increasingly Out of Step with Industry Rivals with Accusations It Helped Orchestrate Deaths of Nigerian Villagers Hiring of Bush Administration “Torture Lawyer” Latest Controversy
SAN FRANCISCO – (BUSINESS WIRE) – Chevron is embarking today on a high stakes defense in U.S.
Chevron Asked To Disclose Relationship to Pat Murphy
Environmental Group Asserts Oil Giant Paying Writers to Pose As Journalists as Part of Public Relations Campaign
San Francisco (October 24) – The environmental group Amazon Watch today called on Chevron and the San Francisco-based writer Pat Murphy to divulge their financial relationship in light of disclosures that Murphy’s website accepts fees for editorial control of news articles written under Murphy’s byline.“Chevro
Indigenous organizations announce measures if Talisman oil company does not abandon Block 64
Talisman has only two weeks left to comply with the timeframe offered by the indigenous communities of Datem of Marañon, Loreto department, for the company to start leaving their territory.
Amazon Watch & Amazon Defense Coalition Win Business Ethics Award For Holding Chevron Accountable for Oil Contamination in Ecuador
San Francisco, CA – Amazon Watch and the Amazon Defense Coalition said today their international campaign to hold Chevron accountable for extensive oil contamination in the Ecuadorian rainforest has received the top Business Ethics Network's BENNY Award for outstanding achievement in advancing corporate ethics.
Texaco Ordered Destruction of Oil Spill Documents
Internal Company Memo Raises More Questions about Texaco's Operations in Amazon Rainforest Chevron Now Faces $16 Billion Liability and Indictments
Quito, Ecuador – Texaco, now owned by Chevron, ordered its employees to destroy reports documenting oil spills in the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador where the company is now the subject of a $16.3 billion potential liability in a civil lawsuit, according to an internal company memo released today by the group representing pla
Talisman in Peru: Corporate citizenship or polished PR?
The Parkland Institute Post | We are living in a world where human rights and environmental issues are becoming more visible in our daily lives.
Doubt, Anger Over Brazil Dams As Work Begins Along Amazon Tributary, Many Question Human, Environmental Costs
The Washington Post | Porto Velho, Brazil – It is quiet here on the wrong side of progress. Hot wind blows dust across the dry bluffs. The brown river runs wide and placid.In his painted wooden skiff, Francisco Evangelista de Abreu, a fisherman, motors up-current. Two river dolphins crest and submerge. His mind is elsewhere.
U'wa Indigenous Community Peacefully Occupies Ecopetrol's Gibraltar Platform to Demand Cancellation of Oil Project
1,000 U'wa Participate in 3-Day Action Despite Warnings and Intimidation Attempts by Military
Bogotá, Colombia — Nearly one thousand members of the U’wa indigenous people from the cloud forests of northeastern Colombia participated in a historic march and peaceful occupation of Ecopetrol’s oil platform in protest of oil project on their sacred ancestral lands.