Houston, May 13, 2009 – Two environmental organizations, Amazon Watch and Save America's Forests, are calling on ConocoPhillips to immediately withdraw from a 10.5 million acre mega-concession in the Peruvian Amazon, as the groups issue a new investigative report citing serious environmental and human rights issues in the c
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New Report Uncovers Serious Risks in ConocoPhillips Peru Operations
Company Urged to Withdraw From Mega-Concession Covering Over 10 million Acres of Pristine Amazon Rainforest
ConocoPhillips Wavers on Controversial Amazon Drilling Plans Indigenous Leaders Tell Shareholder Meeting: No Drilling in Our Rainforest
B-ROLL, PHOTOS, AND INTERVIEWS AVAILABLE BY ARRANGEMENT.Houston — Indigenous leaders gave a mixed reception to news that ConocoPhillips may be rethinking its controversial plans to drill on their ancestral territories in the heart of the Amazon rainforest.Accompanied by the human rights and environmental group
Pressure Mounts on ConocoPhillips Over Controversial Rainforest Drilling Plans Indigenous Leaders Come to Houston to Warn ConocoPhillips: Abandon the Amazon; Global Climate and Our Survival Depend on It
PRESS BRIEFING AND PHOTO OP. OUTSIDE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING ON MAY 9 AT THE OMNI HOUSTON HOTEL.
Eco-Tourism Hope for Ecuador Tribes
BBC | Ecuador - An indigenous tribe from one of the most remote parts of the Amazon rainforest is taking over a unique eco-tourism project as a way to protect their ancestral lands from oil extraction.The project in south-eastern Ecuador is being seen as a blueprint for other indigenous communities facing similar challenges
Amazon Watch is building on more than 25 years of radical and effective solidarity with Indigenous peoples across the Amazon Basin.
San Francisco Spotlight on ConocoPhillips CEO Over Amazon Drilling Rights -- Rainforest Peoples Oppose Devastation of their Lands and Lives
San Francisco, CA - ConocoPhillips CEO James Mulva is in the spotlight today in San Francisco over his company’s vast oil concessions on the ancestral territories of indigenous rainforest communities in the Amazon basin.
Shuar and Achuar Letter to ConocoPhillips CEO James Mulva:
Mr.James MulvaPresidentCONOCO-PHILLIPSDear Mr.
Indígenas Amazónicos Protestan en EE.UU.
El Comercio | Dirigentes indígenas de la Amazonia protestaron en contra de las actividades petroleras en Houston (EE.UU.).Una delegación indígena presidida por el shuar Domingo Ankuash acudió hasta el edificio en donde se realizaba la asamblea de accionistas de Conoco Phillips.La decisión de efectuar esta protesta fue
Amazon Watch May 9, 2006 Letter to ConocoPhillips CEO
Mr. J.J. MulvaChief Executive OfficerConocoPhillips600 North Dairy Ashford Houston, TX 77252-2197Dear J.J. Mulva:Amazon Watch is pleased about ConocoPhillips’ commitment to health, safety and the environment (HSE).
ConocoPhillips' Amazon Concessions at the Crossroads -- CEO James Mulva Tells Native Amazonians that Controversial Oil Blocks are “Under Review” Oil Major’s Decision Will Reveal Truth about its Environmental and Human Rights Commitments
Houston - ConocoPhillips' impending decision regarding its concessions in the Amazon rainforest will reveal the truth about the oil major's stated commitments to safeguard the environment and human rights.During its March takeover of Burlington Resources, ConocoPhillips acquired three concessions on the ancestral lands
Amazon Leaders to Warn ConocoPhillips: “No Trespassing on Our Ancestral Lands!” Oil Giant’s Human Rights and Environmental Policies under the Spotlight at Annual General Meeting
Photo Opportunity with Strong Visuals at Annual General Meeting.Video footage from the Amazon available on request.Houston, May 9 – ConocoPhillips’ human rights and environmental policies will be in the spotlight at its 2006 annual general meeting tomorrow as native Amazonian leaders warn the Houston-ba
Declaration in Opposition to Oil Extraction From the Indigenous Peoples of the Central-Southern Ecuadorian Amazon
Issued by: Inter-Provincial Federation of the Shuar People of Ecuador, FICSHIndependent Federation of the Shuar People of Ecuador, FIPSENacional Achuar Federation of Ecuador, NAEOrganization of the Original Kichwa People from Sarayaku, TAYJA SARUTA-SARAYAKU, RUKULLACTA CooperativePuyo, Ecuador
CONOCOPHILLIPS BUYS BURLINGTON RESOURCES
On December 13, 2005, ConocoPhillips, the third largest U.S. oil and gas company agreed to acquire Burlington Resources in a $35.6 billion deal.
Amazon Watch letter to ConocoPhillips -- Amazon Watch Calls on ConocoPhillips to Reconsider Burlington's Risky Holdings in Ecuador and Peru
James J. MulvaChairman and Chief Executive OfficerConocoPhillips600 North Dairy Ashford (77079-1175)P.O. Box 2197Houston, TX 77252-2197Fax: 281.293.5555Dear Mr.
Amazon Watch Calls on ConocoPhillips to Reconsider Burlington's Risky Holdings in Ecuador and Peru
San Francisco - ConocoPhillips' agreement yesterday to acquire Houston-based Burlington Resources comes with serious environmental, political, and financial liabilities, Amazon Watch said today in a letter sent to James Mulva, the CEO of ConocoPhillips.The letter and an accompanying dossier described Burlington's invol
Sarayaku Update: Hearing before Inter-American Human Rights Court ratifies Sarayaku's arguments
Asunción, Paraguay – On May 11, 2005 Dr. José María Borja, Ecuador’s Attorney General, announced before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of the Organization of American States (OAS) his proposal to maintain the human rights protection measures in favor of the Sarayaku indigenous people.
New Problems for Burlington Resources’ Rainforest Drilling Plans
Company’s Questionable Agreements with Indigenous Leaders and Overthrown Ecuadorian Regime Leave Burlington’s Oil Project in Jeopardy(Houston)—On the day of Burlington Resources’ Annual Shareholder Meeting, the company’s involvement in two controversial oil blocks on indigenous territories in Ecuador’s sout
Tribes Ready to Block Oil Drilling in Territory Indian Tribes in Ecuador are Opposed to Oil Drilling and Have Asked Houston- Based Burlington Resources to Stay Out of the Region
Miami Herald | Quito - The three largest Indian tribes in Ecuador's Amazon region say they are ready to block oil-drilling activity on their territory, which could make a U.S.
Burlington Advisors Speak with Amazonian Indigenous Peoples
El Comercio | El Meollo, Ecuador - Investment Advisors to Burlington Natural Resources wanted to hear the perspectives of local leaders and grassroots communities regarding their opposition to oil development. A group of shareholder advisors to Burlington met with Achuar, Shuar, and Kichwa indigenous leaders.
The New Amazon - In the Face of Petroleros, Bribery, and Soldiers, Ecuador's Sarayacu Defend a World and a Way of life
Orion Magazine | When the oil workers and soldiers arrived at their borders in December of 2002, the people of Sarayacu were ready. They had built twenty-five "Peace and Life" camps spaced evenly along the boundaries of their territory deep within Ecuador's southern Amazon. Each camp held ten to fifteen people.
Indigenous People in Ecuador Stand up to the Oil Industry
Miami Herald | Sarayaku, Ecuador -As the Amazon sun slowly heats up, Marlon Santi, president of the community of Sarayaku, addresses residents under the shade of a zinc roof, updating them on the international legal fight against oil exploration and extraction in their territory.Though no road leads to this Kichwa-speaking com
Indigenous Tribe Takes on Big Oil -- Ecuadoran Village Refuses Money, Blocks Attempts at Drilling on Ancestral Land
Chronicle Foreign Service | Sarayacu, Ecuador - This community of 2,000 Quichua Indians is mounting a groundbreaking and – so far – successful campaign to prevent oil exploitation on their ancestral lands in the southern Amazon region ofEcuador.Unlike most other indigenous groups, Sarayacu has been able to keep an Argentine
Burlington Resources' Plans for Ecuador Run Into Opposition
New York Times | Houston - Burlington Resources, a large independent energy company, has been seeking to drill for oil in a remote part of the Ecuadorean Amazon since the late 1990's, when it acquired an exploration property there. Pablo Tsere, an Indian leader from the same area, has been opposing the company's efforts for just as long.
Tribe Delivers Message at Shareholder Meeting
Houston Chronicle | Wearing his traditional headdress made of toucan feathers, tribal leader Pablo Tsere asked Houston-based Burlington Resources to stay out of his back yard — the Amazon rain forest.Tsere is chief of the 80,000-member Shuar tribe of southeastern Ecuador.
Tribe from Ecuador Protests Burlington Oil Drilling Project in Amazon
AP | The leader of a tribe in Ecuador traveled from the Amazon rainforest to Texas for a shareholders' meeting at a major oil and gas exploration company in order to express his people's opposition to an oil drilling project in theenvironmentally threatened region.Pablo Tsere, chief of the 80,000-member Shuar tribe
Amazonian Indigenous Chief Addresses Burlington Resources Shareholders on Controversial Oil Projects “Immediately Withdraw from our Territory.” Investors Voice Concerns at Company Meeting --Recent footage of growing conflict, the indigenous commun
Houston — Today at Burlington Resources’ annual meeting, shareholders were addressed directly by the chief of the Shuar people of the Ecuadorian Amazon who had traveled thousands of miles and several days to voice the adamant opposition of the region’s indigenous peoples to Burlington’s planned oil projects on their t
Burlington Ecuador Oil Project Seen Facing Showdown
Reuters | Houston - A long-running fight to halt oil exploration in the Ecuadorean Amazon by U.S. independent energy producer Burlington Resources (BR.N: Quote, Profile, Research) and its partner is is nearing potential conflict with the threat of military intervention looming, indigenous leaders said yesterday.
Burlington Urged to Exit Amazon Blocks
International Oil Daily | An Amazonian Indian leader wearing a head-dress made of red, yellow and black Toucan feathers urged Burlington Resources on Wednesday to drop plans to explore for oil on two large tracts of land in the jungles of southeast Ecuador.
Message from the Shuar People of the Ecuadorian Amazon to Burlington Resources at its Annual General Meeting of Investors
“We ask for the immediate departure of all oil companies from the territories of the Shuar, Achuar and Quichuas peoples.We Shuar are an ancient people who continue to live in our territory according to our customs and our own cosmovision.
