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Petroamazonas

Amazonian Communities in Peru Rejoice as Plan for Oil Drilling on Ancestral Land Stalls

News Amazonian Communities in Peru Rejoice as Plan for Oil Drilling on Ancestral Land Stalls Peru’s state-run oil company failed to attract any bids to develop an oil field that overlaps ancestral territories... May 16, 2025

Petroperú’s Oil Gamble Fails: Block 64 Auction Flops Amid Indigenous Opposition

Press Release Petroperú’s Oil Gamble Fails: Block 64 Auction Flops Amid Indigenous Opposition "For many years, we have stood alert and resisted every attempt by the Peruvian government and Petroperú to... May 15, 2025

Press Release Investor Nuns and Baptists Condemn Big Banks For Violating Indigenous Peoples' Rights "Pope Francis called us to stand in solidarity with Indigenous Peoples impacted by destructive and extraction industries on... April 29, 2025

Stop Fueling Amazon Destruction

Report Stop Fueling Amazon Destruction Extracting crude oil from the western Amazon Basin threatens ecologically- and culturally-sensitive ecosystems critical to global climate stability.... June 19, 2017

News U.S. Imports of Amazon Crude Oil Driving Expansion of Oil Operations Crude oil imported to the U.S. from the Amazon, most of which gets refined in California, is driving... October 1, 2016

#EndAmazonCrude Campaign Takes Off!

Video Blog #EndAmazonCrude Campaign Takes Off! With your help we will end destructive oil extraction in the Amazon. Our climate can't afford it and... September 30, 2016

Now Is the Time To #EndAmazonCrude!

Video Blog Now Is the Time To #EndAmazonCrude! Today Amazon Watch issued a new call to the consumers and companies in the U.S. and around the... September 28, 2016

News Finally, a Gross Climate Habit Californians Should Feel Really Guilty About The analysis, done by Amazon Watch, a nonprofit working to protect the rainforest, is the first to document... September 28, 2016

News U.S. Drives Rainforest Destruction By Importing Amazon Oil, Study Finds U.S. imports of crude oil from the Amazon are driving the destruction of some of the rainforest ecosystem's... September 28, 2016

Press Release Amazon Crude Used in U.S. Truck Fleets Is Destroying the Rainforest Oakland, CA – A new report entitled From Well to Wheel: The Social, Environmental and Climate Costs of... September 28, 2016

From Well to Wheel

Report From Well to Wheel Unbeknownst to most, oil extraction in the Amazon is not only rampant; it is also expanding rapidly as... September 28, 2016

News Ecuador Begins Drilling for Oil in Pristine Corner of Amazon Ecuador began drilling for oil on Wednesday near an Amazon nature reserve known as Yasuni, a site that... September 8, 2016

Ecuador Announces First Commercial Barrel of Oil from Yasuní’s ITT Fields

Blog Ecuador Announces First Commercial Barrel of Oil from Yasuní’s ITT Fields From deep inside the most biodiverse part of Earth's largest rainforest, there is terrible news: Oil extraction has... September 7, 2016

Press Release Oil Production Begins at Controversial Amazon Drilling Project Tomorrow, Ecuadorian state oil company Petroamazonas will produce the first barrel of commercial crude from the ITT fields... September 7, 2016

Drilling Towards Disaster: Ecuador’s Aggressive Amazonian Oil Push

Blog Drilling Towards Disaster: Ecuador’s Aggressive Amazonian Oil Push Last week, the Ecuadorian government announced that it had begun constructing the first of a planned 276 wells,... April 6, 2016

A Journey to the Front Lines of Ecuador’s Next Oil Battle

Blog A Journey to the Front Lines of Ecuador’s Next Oil Battle "In the rainforest, everything is possible. Here are our pharmacies. Here are our libraries. Here is our treasure,... March 30, 2016

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