Los Angeles – After a federal judge found that a case charging Occidental Petroleum with pollution of Amazonian communities should be heard in Peru, the plaintiffs, including indigenous Achuar villagers and the advocacy group Amazon Watch, vowed to continue pursuing all legal means of redress.“The plaintiffs are fu
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Oil and power in Latin America Indigenous peoples in South America are taking on Big Oil over decades of environmental abuse.
Los Angeles Times | March 29, 2008Tomas Maynas Carijano, an elder of the Achuar tribe, left his home in the Peruvian Amazon earlier this week and traveled to Los Angeles. He came, he said, to tell the story of his people's suffering at the hands of a U.S. oil company.
Indígenas buscan justicia en California
Diario HOY | Los Ángeles – Dicen que hace algunos años la palabra 'cáncer' no se pronunciaba entre los indígenas Achuar del norte del Perú.Pero ahora esa palabra se ha vuelto parte de su diario vivir, dijo Apu Tomás Maynas Carijano, miembro de esa comunidad y quien es el principal demandante en una querella colectiva
Peru Tribe Battles Oil Giant Over Pollution
BBC News | Loreto, Peru – It is a familiar story. Big business moves into a pristine wilderness and starts destroying the environment and by turn the livelihoods of the indigenous people who live there.
Indígenas denuncian derrame petrolero Comunidades demandan a Pluspetrol ante Osinerming. Incidente ocurrió el 31 de diciembre en el Lote 1AB (Loreto). Pluspetrol dará hoy sus descargos.
Diario La Republica | La empresa argentina Pluspetrol, responsable de explotar los lotes petroleros 1AB y 8, enfrenta una nueva denuncia por derrames de hidrocarburos en la cuenca del río Corrientes, departamento de Loreto.La denuncia fue presentada el 31 de enero del 2008 ante la Unidad de Exploración y Explotación del Organismo Supervi
Amazon Watch is building on more than 25 years of radical and effective solidarity with Indigenous peoples across the Amazon Basin.
For Peru's Indians, Lawsuit Against Big Oil Reflects a New Era Outsiders and High-Tech Tools Help Document Firms' Impact
Washington Post | NUEVO JERUSALEM, Peru — Tomás Maynas Carijano strolled through his tiny jungle farm, pinching leaves, shaking his head.
U’wa Communique: Ecocide, Genocide, or Sustainable Development?
U’wa Territory – 27 November 2007Esteemed Friends from Europe, United States, Central America, South America, and the worldWe, the U’wa, are writing you now looking to reinforce our international relationships given that you all have been and will continue to be a great encouragement in our process of cult
Dorissa Accord: A Statement of Progress One Year On
October marked the one-year anniversary of an historic agreement involving the Peruvian government, the Argentine Pluspetrol oil company and the Achuar indigenous people of the northern Peruvian Amazon.
'Pocahontas Peruana' Gana Premio Ambiental Joven actriz norteamericana, hija de peruanos, es reconocida por su lucha por el medio ambiente
Terra / Agencias | Q'orianka Kilcher ganó el premio medioambiental Brower, en reconocimiento a sus sobresalientes esfuerzos por proteger a la selva amazónica y a los indígenas de la contaminación de las empresas petroleras."Q'orianka es inteligente, apasionada y llena de energía.
ECOPETROL becomes privatized and as a result braces itself against native inhabitants
Actualidad Etnica | By Luis Carlos Osorio R.Director of Actualidad EtnicaBogotá, 27 September 2007The hypothesis is simple and shared by many specialists in the field: with the sale of stock shares, the Colombian government, on one hand, continues the process of privatization by auctioning the most profitable company in
Achuar Block 39 New Oil Wells on their Territory Communities Celebrate Major Victory in Battle to Protect Ancestral Lands
San Francisco, CA – Achuar indigenous communities in the northern Peruvian Amazon were celebrating a major victory over the oil industry after the Argentine company Pluspetrol agreed to forego drilling 39 proposed new wells on Achuar land.The decision, which was not made public until yesterday, was announced by Plusp
Amazonian Indigenous Group Opposes New Pluspetrol Oil Wells
EFE | Lima, Peru - Indigenous communities of the Peruvian Amazon expressed to the Argentine Pluspetrol company their decision to not allow the opening of new oil wells, given concerns over contamination of their territories, as stated today by the Federation of Native Communities of the Corrientes River Basin (Feconaco).
Más Derrames De Petróleo Aseguran Que El Agua De Contaminó Por El Derrame.
Peru 21 | Pese a los compromisos asumidos por la empresa Pluspetrol para trabajar con el fin de remediar la contaminación que actualmente afecta el río Corrientes, los derrames de petróleo siguen perjudicando a las comunidades nativas asentadas en ese lugar.
“That law is held in my heart and in the cassette tape here in my head,” says Roberto Afandor Cobaría, the ultimate U’wa leader and emblem.
Actualidad Étnica | Excerpts of an interview with Afandor Cobaría given to Luis Carlos Osorio, Director of the Colombia magazine Actualidad Étnica.* Available online at www.etniasdecolombia.orgBogotá, July 6, 2007.
Carta de FECONACO a Hunt Oil Sobre Lote 143
Iquitos, 13 de Agosto del 2007Carta No 155-07-FECONACOSenores: Sr.
Amazon Watch letter to Hunt Oil Regarding New Oil Block on Achuar Territory
31 July, 2007Mr. Ray L. Hunt, CEOHunt Oil CompanyFountain Place, 1445 Foss at Field, Suite 1400Dallas, TX 75202-2785Mr. Hunt,Amazon Watch is aware that Perupetro has awarded Hunt Oil drilling rights for Block 143 in the northern Peruvian Amazon.
Achuar Letter to Pluspetrol Rejecting New Drilling on Ancestral Land
Al Presidente de la República del Perú;A los Congresistas de la República del Perú;Al pueblo Loretano y a todo el pueblo peruano;Al pueblo y al Gobierno Argentino;A la comunidad Internacional;A la empresa petrolera Pluspetrol;Los abajo firmantes Apus, autoridades y delegados de las com
FECONACO Communique Demanding That the Peruvian Presidency of Ministries Council Declare a Health and Environmental Emergency in the Corrientes River Basin
MEMORIAL DE LAS COMUNIDADES ACHUARES, QUICHUAS, Y URARINAS DEL RIO CORRIENTES, AFILIADAS A LA ORGANIZACIÓN FECONACO DIRIGUIDO A LA PRESIDENCIA DEL CONSEJO DE MINISTROS SOLICITANDO SE DECLARE LA EMERGENCIA EN SALUD Y AMBIENTE EN LA CUENCA DEL RIO CORRIENTESA los 18 días del mes de Julio del año 2007, los Apus y deleg
Peruvians sue oil giant over Amazon pollution
The Guardian | Los Angeles - Members of an indigenous tribe from the Peruvian Amazon sued the oil giant Occidental Petroleum yesterday in California's superior court, alleging that the company knowingly put the health of the Achuar people at risk and damaged their habitat.The claim alleges that over the course of three decades Oxy, a
Peruvians sue Oxy, claiming pollution
Los Angeles Times | Los Angeles - Members of indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon region sued Occidental Petroleum Corp.
Indigenous Peruvians Sue Occidental Petroleum for Contaminating Rivers and Land in Amazon Lawsuit Charges Oil Giant with Harming Health and Environment of Native Achuar People
Los Angeles, CA – EarthRights International (ERI) and the law firm Schonbrun DeSimone Seplow Harris & Hoffman LLP (SDSHH) today brought suit on behalf of twenty-five indigenous Achuar plaintiffs from the Peruvian Amazon against Los Angeles-based Occidental Petroleum Corp.
Peru communities sue Occidental for oil operations
Reuters | LOS ANGELES - Indigenous Peruvian Achuar communities filed a class action suit against Occidental Petroleum Corp.
Protesters target Occidental A lawsuit is threatened over oil operations in the Amazon basin.
Los Angeles Times | Shareholders of Occidental Petroleum Corp. gathered Friday to hear details behind another great year in the oil business.
Report: Occidental Petroleum Polluted Peruvian Amazon and Poisoned Indigenous Communities LA-Based Oil Giant’s Conduct Leads to Legal Liability in the US
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Amazon Leaders Give Oxy Ultimatum
Amazon Leaders Give Oxy Ultimatum: Clean Up Your Toxic Waste from our Rainforest or Face Legal Action in the U.S.Indigenous Children Suffer Lead and Cadmium Poisoning from Oxy’s Toxic Dumping, New Report FindsFriday photo op.
Oil company accused of dumping waste in Amazon
The Independent | A US oil company has been accused of contaminating an area of the Peruvian Amazon where it and its successor company have drilled for oil for the past 32 years, creating misery for the local Achuar people and widespread lead and cadmium poisoning.
Indigenous Peru group threatens to sue Occidental
Reuters | LOS ANGELES - Indigenous Achuar communities of Peru who claim that pollution resulting from the production of oil harmed their way of life and dama ged their health on Thursday threatened to sue Occidental Petroleum Corp..The Achuar people live along the Corrientes River in the Amazon Basin of northeastern Peru near Ec
A Legacy of Harm
Occidental Petroleum in Indigenous Territory in the Peruvian Amazon
This report summarizes the impacts of Occidental's activities in the Corrientes River basin in the northeastern Peruvian Amazon and explains the legal grounds for civil demands due to their deliberate use of substandard technology.
Former Defensor del Pueblo Eduardo Cifuentes speaks out about the U'wa Indigenous People of Colombia
Entrevista/ Aportes para el análisis del caso U’wa Redacción Actualidad ÉtnicaBogotá, 02/02/2007.
