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Ecuador to Deport 14 Foreigners for Protesting Oil Pipeline

Associated Press | Quito, Ecuador - Ecuador will deport 14 environmental activists for protesting the construction of an oil pipeline while they were in the country on a tourist visa, authorities said Wednesday.The government said in a statement that the demonstrators had violated their immigration status by promoting "disobedience

OCP: Intendente Ordena Deportación de Extranjeros

El Comercio | Quito - El Intendente de Policía Víctor Olmedo ordenó hoy la deportación de los 14 ecologistas extranjeros detenidos el lunes por intentar impedir el avance de las obras de un oleoducto de crudos pesados por la zona de Mindo (al noroeste de Quito), caracterizada por su alta biodiversidad.Los ecologistas extranjeros

Ecuadoreans Want $1 billion Texaco Suit Heard in US

Energy Compass | About 30,000 residents of Ecuador's oil-producing Oriente region have launched an appeal in a US district court aimed at bringing a $1 billion class-action suit against Texaco in the US.

Amazon Residents Pursue Case Against Texaco

Oil Daily | An appeal being heard by a US District Court in New York, filed by thousands of residents of Ecuador's Amazon region against Texaco, may result in the first time that an US corporation is held accountable in this country for environmental damages caused in another country.Thousands of residents of Ecuador's oil-produci

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Lawyer for Ecuador Urges Case Against Texaco be Tried in United States

Associated Press | New York - A lawyer for Ecuador urged a federal appeals court on Monday to let lawsuits seeking more than a billion dollars brought by Ecuadorean Indians against Texaco Inc. proceed in the United States.The New York-based lawyer, Ronald Minkoff, told the 2nd U.S.

Ecuador Indigenous Groups in New York for Major Showdown with ChevronTexaco Billions at Stake as Tribal Leaders Press Groundbreaking Lawsuit Before Appeals Court Assert Texaco Ruined Their Rivers and Land Destroying Their Centuries-Old Way of Life

New York - Indian tribal leaders from the Amazon region of Ecuador arrive in New York March 11, for a major courtroom showdown with Chevron-Texaco over a billion-dollar lawsuit charging that Texaco (which emerged with Chevron in 2001) caused widespread devastation to the rainforest environment and dramatically increased the r

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Ministry Revokes OCP Environment License - Ecuador

BNamericas.com | Ecuador's environmental ministry has temporarily revoked the environmental license for construction of the OCP heavy crude pipeline because of damage to the ecosystem in Guarumos, northwest of Quito, newspaper Expreso reported.The OCP consortium has halted pipe laying in the area, and must now implement previously agr

Settling Ecuador Oil Protest Very Costly to Government, OCP Consortium

Oil Daily | The strike and demonstrations staged by environmental activists and Amazonian communities in Ecuador's oil-rich provinces of Orellana and Sucumbios ended early Monday, but settlement came at a cost and serves as a reminder that nothing should be taken for granted as the country proceeds with its heavy crude oil pipeline (OCP)

Ecuador Amazon Protests End; Army Control Lifted

Reuters | QUITO, Ecuador (Reuters) - Ecuador's government and Amazon jungle protestors struck an accord Monday that put an end to 10 days of violence that left one dead and dampened oil output, officials said.The government had put crude-rich Sucumbios and Orellana provinces under army control after protestors seeking developmen

Ecuador Seeks End to Protests

Oil Daily | A day after a demonstrator was killed, Ecuador's government agreed last Thursday to allow lawmakers to mediate an end to protests that have halted the construction of a new $1.1 billion pipeline (OD Feb.28,p6).Demonstrators in the poor jungle provinces of Sucumbios and Orellana have seized oil wells and blocked highway

Ecuador: The North in Flames with Strikes and Repression

IPS | Quito - A mayor from northern Ecuador sent an anguished cry for help against the bloody military repression against a strike caused by the laying of the Heavy Oil Pipeline in the Amazon rainforest. "Please help us, please help us, they continue to shoot up my city.

Ecuador Says Foreign Activists Won't Stop Oil Line

Reuters | Quito, Ecuador - Ecuador's president Gustavo Noboa lashedout on Thursday at foreign environmental activists seeking to halt a $1.1billion crude pipeline project seen as key to the country's economy.Members of Greenpeace visited the Andean nation this week and said they'repressuring German bank WestLB

Ecuador Oil Pipeline Project Under Fire on Two Continents

OneWorld US | Environmental activist groups from two continents have vowed to step uptheir fight against a foreign-financed pipeline project that would transportoil from the Ecuadorian Amazon to the Pacific after completing a 10-day touralong the 300-mile route.Speaking at a press conference at the conclusion of th

Environment-Ecuador: Activists Chained to Trees to Block Pipeline

IPS | Quito - Environmental activists are camping out in treetops and chaining themselves to trees in Ecuador's Amazon jungle as part of an international campaign to block the construction of an oil pipeline that is to run through fragile tropical forest and highland ecosystems.

Ecuadorian Indigenous Groups March Against Privitization

Men and women of all ages were the protagonists of a symbolic event of great importance when they carried out a peace march to tell the Government that the country as a whole does NOT agree with the sale of electric companies and it does NOT agree with the privatization of the public sector.More than ten thousand peopl

Ecuador's Indians Threaten New Protests over Economic Policies

OIL AND GAS JOURNAL WEBSITE Screaming Media | Quito, (EFE) - Ecuadorian Indigenous Peoples Confederation (CONAIE) President Leonidas Iza on Wednesday threatened to stage protests if the government does not change its economic policies and abandon efforts to privatize electricity.

Indigenous Nations Oppose Ecuador's Ninth Round of Oil Licensing

Quito, Ecuador - To defend their natural heritage and ancestral way of life followed since time immemorial, indigenous communities from the central and southern Ecuadorian Amazon have declared their opposition to oil exploitation in their territories as proposed under the Ecuadorian government's recently announced Ninth Round

Ecuador Pipeline Makes New Enemies

Energy Compass | Opposition to Ecuador's heavy crude oil pipeline (OCP) has been building for10 years.

Kerr-McGee Exits Embattled Ecuador Pipeline

Oil Daily | US independent producer Kerr-McGee will sell its stake in two oil blocks in Ecuador and its share in the embattled OCP heavy crude oil pipeline to small French firm Perenco. Kerr-McGee is exiting Ecuador to concentrate on its operations in the US and the UK.

Environment-Ecuador: Pipeline Project Subject of "Deep Concern"

Inter Press Service | Washington - The World Bank has quietly communicated deep concern to the managers and lenders of a major pipeline project that independent environmental groups have said threatens unique ecosystems in the Ecuadorean highlands.

Activists Claim Win on Ecuador Pipeline

One World US | Environmental activists in Ecuador are claiming a tentative victory in their long fight to prevent the construction of an oil pipeline through one of the world's most pristine bird sanctuaries, the Mindo Namibillo Cloudforest Reserve, high in the Andean mountains in the country's Amazon region.