Deutsche Welle | A German bank is financing a highly-controversial pipeline project in Ecuador, which will run through the country’s rainforests. A government delegation has now visited the site.The dispute surrounding the Oleoducto de Crudos Pesados (OCP) or Heavy-Crude Pipeline in Ecuador has not just caused local resistance.
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Noboa and Greens Clash Over Ecuador Pipeline
Energy Compass | Environmental activists have been arrested, released, and deported, troops have come and gone, environmental officials have dared to pull a license stopping work until the pipeline is repaired, and pressure is brought by the World Bank to change the route, but still Ecuadorean President Gustavo Noboa has vowed to complete the
German Parliamentarians Arrive in Mindo Today to Inspect OCP Pipeline Route Jailed Environmentalists Freed, All Charges Dropped
Mindo, Ecuador - Members of the German State Parliament of the North Rhine Westfalia arrived in Mindo today to visit the controversial OCP pipeline route.
Ecuador Presses Ahead with Controversial OCP Pipeline, Aims to Reverse Output Decline
Oil Daily | Though it is facing stiff challenges on several fronts, Ecuador is pressing ahead with the timely completion of its 450,000-barrel-per-day OCP heavy crude pipeline, which greatly enhances the Andean nation’s oil export capacity.The $1.1 billion pipeline, undertaken by a consortium made up of Canada's Alberta Energy,
Ecuador Police Detain, Deport Anti-Pipeline Activists
OneWorld US | Ecuador's police have detained 17 environmental activists who tried to block construction of a controversial oil pipeline through an ecologically unique Andean rainforest and plans to immediately deport the 14 foreigners in the group, including one U.S. citizen.
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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
Pipeline Protests Continue as Ecuadorian Armed Forces Evict Mindo Environmentalists Local Community Blocks Highway and Confiscates OCP Vehicles in Response
Mindo, Ecuador - Approximately one hundred members of the Ecuadorian National Police forcibly evicted seventeen activists Monday evening blockading the OCP pipeline route through the sensitive Mindo Nambillo Protected Cloudforest.
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
Just Tourists on Broadway, but Barefoot and Craving Roast Monkey
New York Times | Ecuadorean Indians traveled about 3,000 miles to attend a hearing in courtin Manhattan about a lawsuit over pollution on their land.
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
El Consejo de Gobierno de las Nacionalidades y Pueblos Indigenas del Ecuador
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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
Ecuadorian Military Attacks OCP Pipeline Demonstrators At Least Two Reported Dead, Dozens Wounded
This release contains statements from Ecuadorian organizations involved in the general strike against the OCP pipeline and pumping station.
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.
Al Gobierno, Ministros de Estado, Medios de Communicación, Opinion Pública Nacional e Internacional
El Ecuador está atravesando por una grave crisis consecuencia de la falta de "Voluntad Política" por parte del gobierno del Presidente Gustavo Noboa.A partir del día lunes 18 de febrero 2002 los pobladores de las Provincias de Orellana y Sucumbíos adoptaron como medida de hecho la paralización de actividades en to
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
En Vez de Truncar la Viabilidad a la Privatización de las Empresas Eléctricas, el Gobierno Trunca Nuestras Propuestas Alternativas
Varones y mujeres de todas las edades fueron protagonistas de un hecho simbólico de gran importancia al realizar una marcha pacífica para decirle al Gobierno, que el pueblo NO esta de acuerdo con la venta de las empresas eléctricas y NO esta de acuerdo con la privatización del sector público.Mas de 10 mil personas
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.
