First, some good news! Thanks in no small part to shareholder advocacy efforts, Talisman Energy and ConocoPhillips announced plans this fall to withdraw from key oil blocks in the Peruvian Amazon. And in the historic Chevron lawsuit, the Ecuadorian plaintiffs have launched a global enforcement strategy, which is already making strides in Argentina...
Ivanhoe Energy
Indigenous Group Rejects Ivanhoe's Rainforest Oil Project in Calgary
Ecuadorian tribal leader delivers opposition statement to company headquarters
Calgary, Canada – A surprise guest met representatives of Canadian-based Ivanhoe Energy this morning at its Calgary headquarters to denounce the company's oil operations in Ecuador.
Investor's Eye on the Amazon
In this Spring edition of Investor's Eye on the Amazon, we would like to draw your attention to several investor resolutions at Chevron, news that Talisman Energy may pull out of Peru altogether, and protests by Vale shareholders over its huge investments in disastrous projects like Brazil's Belo Monte dam.
Investor's Eye on the Amazon - December 2011
In this winter edition of Investor's Eye on the Amazon, we would like to draw your attention to a co-filing opportunity at Chevron, urgent on-the-ground testimony about Canadian company Talisman Energy's divisive oil operations in the ancestral territory of the Achuar people, and an update from the frontlines in Ecuador where Rukullacta Kichwa...
Indigenous Group Again Rejects Ivanhoe's Drilling Plans
From the streets of Quito to Ecuador's Congressional chamber, Rukullacta goes public in rejecting Ivanhoe’s project, finding inspiration in an ancient Amazonian leader.
Amazon Watch is building on more than 25 years of radical and effective solidarity with Indigenous peoples across the Amazon Basin.
Investor's Eye on the Amazon - October 2011
This third edition of our Investor's Eye on the Amazon quarterly email newsletter is jam-packed with important updates from a number of our campaigns.
Investor's Eye on the Amazon - May 2011
This is the second edition of our Investor's Eye on the Amazon quarterly email newsletter, featuring a new report entitled "An Analysis of the Operational Risks to Chevron Corporation from Aguinda v. ChevronTexaco."
Risk Assessment: Ivanhoe Energy and the Pungarayacu Project in Ecuador
An Amazon Watch Risk Assessment
This report explores risks faced by Ivanhoe Energy investors from the Pungarayacu project, as well as those stemming from the company's history and questionable fiduciary management.
Above the Law?
Ivanhoe Energy commences covert drilling activities in the Ecuadorian Amazon
In brazen disregard for both Ecuadorian and international law, Canadian company Ivanhoe Energy has started secret oil exploration activities on legally-titled land of the Kichwa indigenous people of Rucullacta without the community's permission.
A Lose-Lose Proposition: Ivanhoe Energy in Ecuador's Block 20
Ivanhoe Energy In Ecuador's Block 20
Amazon Watch | Canada's Ivanhoe Energy is in the exploration phase of a new heavy oil drilling project in Ecuador, a country that has seen some of the ugliest consequences of extractive industry and, as a reaction to that, some of the most tenacious grassroots resistance to it anywhere in the world.
