El Universo | Quito - El presidente del consorcio OCP Limited, Hernán Lara, advirtió ayer que la firma "volvería a revisar" el contrato para analizar su continuación, si no obtiene la licencia del Ministerio del Ambiente para iniciar la construcción del nuevo oleoducto.
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OCP Threatens to Quit Ecuador Line
Oil Daily | Multinational oil consortium OCP Ltd. could withdraw its plans to build a heavy crude pipeline in Ecuador if the government does not approve the environmental permits it is seeking, the company's president said Tuesday.
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Petroleum Intelligence Weekly | Ecuador - In the latest twist to the saga of Ecuador's heavy crude oil pipeline, an environmental impact study has come under fire, amid pressure for a change in route for the 518,000 b/d export line.
Environment-Ecuador: Minister Speaks Out Against Oil Pipeline
Inter Press Service (IPS/IMS) | Quito - Ecuador's Environment Minister has joined native groups and environmentalists in speaking out against the irreparable ecological damage they say would be caused by a 500-km oil pipeline slated to cross 11 nature and indigenous reserves.
Ambiente * Los Cuestionamientos a la Propuesta del OCP Se Hacen en Siete Areas, No Solo Ecológicas 72 Reparos al Estudio de Impacto
El Comercio | El espesor del ducto y las medidas de protección no están claros. La ruta autorizada es el punto de mayor conflictividad. La Ministra busca una salida técnica. En 15 días termina el plazo para que las observaciones hechas al Estudio de Impacto Ambiental se incorporen al proyecto.
Amazon Watch is building on more than 25 years of radical and effective solidarity with Indigenous peoples across the Amazon Basin.
OCP: Evidenciar el Pretexto
El Comercio | El presidente Gustavo Noboa quiso ponerse duro utilizando los bordes del idioma, donde existen palabras que pueden expresar ira y voluntad inquebrantable, pero también volverse el adecuado pretexto para agudizar confrontaciones y frustrar grandes proyectos como es el caso del nuevo Oleoducto de Crudos Pesados.
Ecuador Environment Ministry Reviews Pipeline Route
Oil Daily | Quito, Ecuador - Ecuador's Environment Ministry said in a statement sent to Reuters yesterday that a study of a plan to build a new oil pipeline fails to provide a complete analysis of the country's biodiversity.
Ecuador Environment Ministry Reviews Pipeline Route
Oil Daily | Quito, Ecuador - Ecuador's Environment Ministry said in a statement sent to Reuters yesterday that a study of a plan to build a new oil pipeline fails to provide a complete analysis of the country's biodiversity.
Indigenas Inician Juicio contra Oleoducto
La Hora | Quito, Ecuador - Washington Ambientalistas y poblaciones indigenas de Ecuador entablaron juicio contra el gobierno para impedir la construccion del Oleoducto de Crudo Pesado (OCP), cuya ruta prevista atraviesa areas selvaticas protegidas.
OCP Limited Ratifica que Ducto Irá por Ruta Norte
el universo | Quito - El Oleoducto de Crudos Pesados (OCP) seguirá la ruta norte, que cruza el noroccidente de Pichincha, lo confirmó ayer el representante legal de la Compañía OCP Limited, Francisco Díaz Garaycoa.
Ecuadorian President Declares "War" on Environmentalists over Criticism of Pipeline
HOY | "Nobody is going to screw us": Noboa Guayaquil - Citing pressure from the International Monetary Fund, Ecuadorian President Gustavo Noboa blasted environmentalists for their criticism of a major new oil pipeline project in a press conference yesterday.Environmentalists, indigenous groups, human rights organizati
'Nadie Va a Joder al País, el OCP Va, porque Va': Noboa
HOY | Nadie va a joder al país... el OCP va porque va", enfatizó ayer, en Guayaquil, el presidente Gustavo Noboa. El mandatario no admite que ciertos grupos de ecologistas y hasta un alcalde, quieran detener la obra.
Natives, Green Groups Fight Ecuador Pipeline
Oil Daily | A growing group of Ecuadorean indigenous activist groups, working with environmentalists both inside and outside the country, are taking steps to try to reroute or halt completely the country's heavy crude oil pipeline (OCP) - and the increased involvement of one local organization may make the difference in their success.
Environmental Opposition to Ecuador Pipeline Intensifies
Reuters | Quito, Ecuador - A coalition of environmental groups urged Ecuador's Energy Ministry on Thursday to reject an application for an environmental permit to build a long-awaited heavy crude oil pipeline.It is the first time the five environmental groups, led by Fundacion Natura, have officially opposed the project, along w
Ecuador Group Files Lawsuit Against Repsol
Oil & Gas Journal | Quito (EFE via COMTEX) - Environmental, human-rights and Indians groups filed a lawsuit with the Constitutional Court Tuesday to stop Repsol-YPF from building a new oil pipeline.At least 100 protesters, meanwhile, peacefully took over Energy Minister Pablo Teran's office, to force him to listen to their compliant.
Indigenous & Environmental Groups File Lawsuit Challenging the OCP US & German Banks on the Hot Seat for Financing the New Crude Pipeline in Ecuadorian Amazon
Major international environmental groups sent a letter this week to J.P. Morgan Chase, Citigroup, and Deutsche Bank raising serious concerns about a controversial new Ecuadorian oil pipeline, known as the OCP (Oleoducto de Crudo Pesado) and urged the banks to refrain from further financing the project.
Communique to National and International Community
The U'wa people inform the National and International Community about the current state of our TERRITORIAL, CULTURAL, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND SOCIAL process against the OIL EXPLORATION PROJECT IN THE AREA OF THE GIBRALTAR WELL UNDERTAKEN BY OCCIDENTAL PETROLEUM MULTINATIONAL OF COLOMBIA INC., AND WITH APPROVAL FROM THE COLOMBIAN G
Comunicado a la Opinion Publica Nacional e Internacional
El Pueblo U'wa informa a la Opinión Pública Nacional e Internacional el estado actual del proceso de DEFENSA TERRITORIAL, CULTURAL, AMBIENTAL Y SOCIAL adelantando en contra del PROYECTO DE EXPLORACION PETROLERA EN EL ÁREA POZO GIBRALTAR, VEREDA CEDEÑO, CORREGIMIENTO DE GIBRALTAR, MUNICIPIO DE TOLEDO, DEPARTAMENTO DE NORTE
America's Best & Worst Boards
Fortune | Lists the best and worst governance by the boards of U.S.-based companies. Notes the best as Coca-Cola, Intel, Pfizer, Target, and Texas Instruments and the worst as Advanced Micro Devices, Archer Daniels Midland, Maxxam, Occidental Petroleum, and Warnaco.
Widespread Ecuadorian Opposition to OCP Pipeline Route at Public Meeting
San Miguel de los Bancos - With posters, whistles, drums and chants, hundreds of people from the Northwest Pichincha province of Ecuador expressed their firm opposition in a public meeting today to the passage of the Heavy Crude Pipeline (OCP-Oleoducto de Crudos Pesados) through the region.The public hearing, organized
Multitudinaria Oposicion a Ruta del OCP en Reunion Publica
San Miguel de los Bancos. - Con pancartas, pitos, tambores y consignas centenares de pobladores del Noroccidente de Pichincha manifestaron su oposición contundente al paso del Oleoducto de Crudos Pesados (OCP) por este sector en una reunión pública hoy.
Observaciones A La Evaluacion De Impactos Ambientales Para El Proyecto Oleoducto De Crudos Pesados
Descarga el informe en el formato PDF (78 kb)Introducción:Las ONG que suscribimos el presente informe, hemos seguido atentamente el proceso de adjudicación para la construcción del Nuevo Oleoducto de Crudos Pesa
Comentarios de DE Acción Ecológica a los Estudios Ambientales del OCP
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Oleoducto * Ambiente Hizo 72 Observaciones y No Dará la Licencia si No Se Recogen OCP: el Diálogo Empezará el Lunes
El Comercio | La Empresa que hizo el estudio de impacto ambiental dice que la ruta norte no es negociable. Sin embargo, siguen las dudas. Oleoducto sí, por Mindo no". Con esta frase los ambientalistas resumen su posición frente a la construcción del Oleoducto de Crudos Pesados (OCP).
Protests Urge Sanford Bernstein Divest in Occidental
Reuters | New York - Protesters on Thursday tried to meet with the management of investment group Sanford Bernstein/Alliance Capital to urge the company to divest its shares of oil company Occidental Corp.
Chevron's Board Urged to Disclose Texaco's Liabilities in the Ecuadorian Amazon in the Merger Proceedings Evidence Detailing More than Three Hundred and Fifty Contaminated Sites Handed to Chevron's Chairman
Los Angeles, CA - Chevron's Board of Directors were put on notice at the company's annual meeting yesterday that the company is legally required to notify the SEC and their shareholders of the law suit and the environmental liabilities it would inherit following the merger with Texaco with respect to hundreds of contaminated
Le Urgieron a la Junta Directiva de Chevron que se Divulgaran las Responsabilidades de Texaco en la Amazonía Ecuatoriana Durante los Procedimientos de Fusión (Merger) Evidencia Detallando Más de Trescientos Cincuenta Sitios Contaminados Heredados por e
Los Angeles, CA - Se le aviso a la Junta Directiva de Chevron que se requiere que la compañía notifique legalmente a la Comisión de Seguridades e Intercambio (SEC) – una agencia del gobierno de los Estados Unidos – y a accionistas de Chevron sobre el juicio y las responsabilidades ecológicas que heredaría
U'wa Leader and Activists Target Occidental Petroleum's Largest Investor Protests in Seven Cities Call on Bernstein/Alliance Capital /AXA Financial to Divest from Occidental and the Deadly Oil Project in Colombian Cloudforest Region
New York, NY - U'wa tribal chief accompanied by human rights and environmental activists demonstrated outside the offices of investment giant Bernstein/Alliance Capital today to protest the company's holdings in the Los Angeles based-Occidental Petroleum (OXY)- under fire for drilling on the land of the traditional U'wa peopl
Oil Pipeline Said to Threaten Eco-Tourism in Ecuador
Miami Herald | Mindo, Ecuador - Benjamin Mora isn't terribly worried about the fate of the black-breasted puffleg hummingbird that's been spotted in the dark-green ridgeline that shadows his village of Mindo.
