Fast Forward Weekly | "This is the fourth time a commission of Achuar leaders are coming here to Calgary to speak about the same thing. The Achuar people affiliated with FENAP are reclaiming their territorial rights. There is no space for Talisman Energy to enter."
Talisman Energy
Indigenous Peruvian Community Locked in Dispute with Oil Company
IPS | Toronto, Canada – An indigenous group in the Amazon rain forest took its anti-oil message to Canada in a case rife with accusations of social and environmental damage that highlights the issue of securing consent prior to commencing exploration operations.
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.
Talisman's Very Bad Day
CEO John Manzoni's mouth was frozen in an outraged pout, as if he were undergoing some unspeakably undignified surgery. His meeting with the face-painted Achuar leaders was not going well at all.
Achuar Leaders Demand Talisman Vacate Peruvian Amazon
Canadians support Achuar outside AGM, call on Talisman to respect indigenous rights
Interviews, hi-res photos & b-roll available upon request
Calgary, Canada – Canadians rallied in support around Peruvian indigenous leaders who spoke out against Talisman in the company's Annual General Meeting of shareholders today.
Amazon Watch is building on more than 25 years of radical and effective solidarity with Indigenous peoples across the Amazon Basin.
This Used to Be Forest
The Achuar people live on both sides of the Peru-Ecuador border in the Amazon rainforest. Since 2004, Calgary-based Talisman Energy has been drilling exploratory wells in a remote watershed in the heart of Achuar territory – despite strong opposition from the people who live there.
Return of the Achuar to Turtle Island
Whereas oil companies want to operate with impunity in indigenous territories, we help courageous communities bring their demands directly to their corporate headquarters. This time, it's Talisman Energy, which has long held designs on the oil within Achuar lands.
Amazon Watch's 2012 Priorities
Learn more about the biggest issues facing the Amazon rainforest and its indigenous peoples in 2012 and how Amazon Watch is focusing on them.
Achuar Leaders Take Their Cause to Canada
Four Achuar leaders traveled from deep in the Amazon rainforest to Canada to confront Talisman Energy for drilling for oil in their ancestral territory.
They've Come a Long Way to Protect Their Amazon Home
Ottawa Citizen | Dressed in brightly coloured headgear and clothing, these indigenous leaders from another world might not look like they represent a real threat to one of Canada's international energy giants. But looks can be deceiving.
Amazonian Indigenous Visit Parliament, Demand Talisman Leave Territory
Ottawa, Canada – Talisman Energy is creating environmental damage in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest and operating in Achuar indigenous territory without consent, a group of Achuar leaders claimed today during a press conference on Parliament Hill.
Issue Brief: The Achuar and Talisman Energy
Indigenous Rights, Justice, and Corporate Accountability in the Peruvian Amazon
The remote Amazon headwaters along the border of Peru and Ecuador are one of the most biodiverse places on Earth. This remote region is home to over 11,000 Achuar indigenous people. Today, the Achuar's way of life and survival is threatened by international oil companies exploring and drilling for oil.
The Achuar to Canada: Meet the Delegates
Message from Jiyukam (Lucas) Irar Miik
"My people have elected me to travel to Canada to tell the world about how Talisman's oil drilling puts our lives in danger."
Chumpi & the Waterfall
"We're going to prove that a future without the oil company is possible"
Meet Chumpi, a young indigenous Achuar boy from Chicherta Village in the remote headwaters of an Amazon tributary deep in the Peruvian rainforest.
"Water is Life" Mobilization against Oil Threat to Water Supply in Peruvian Amazon
North American companies threaten to exploit oil on Nanay River, principle Iquitos water source
Iquitos, Peru – Today, hundreds of residents from the Amazonian city of Iquitos in Peru plan to converge on the streets to defend their human right to clean water and denounce ConocoPhillips, Gran Tierra and Talisman Energy.
Achuar Leader Visits Calgary, Again!
The Media Co-op | Calgary, Canada – This is the third time. Achuar delegates have arrived at the doorsteps of Calgary's extractive oil industry in the past. They say, "Go Away!"
Testimony of Father Diego Clavijo
A priest who has worked with the Achuar and the Shuar-Wampisa people for ten years says that Talisman Energy's operations are causing conflict and risking lives.
Talisman Provokes Violence in Peruvian Amazon
Testimony reveals shocking new threats to indigenous people
Loreto, Peru – Canadian oil company Talisman Energy's operations in northern Peru are causing conflict and division in Achuar and Shuar-Wampisa communities and risking lives, according to Salesian missionary priest Father Diego Clavijo and indigenous Achuar leader Peas Peas Ayui.
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...
"We Are on the Verge of Genocide."
An urgent call from the Peruvian Amazon
According to the urgent testimony of two Catholic priests, an already tense situation in Achuar territory has taken a turn for the worse over recent months, heightening the risk of imminent bloodshed between neighboring families.
Amazonian Indigenous Leader Confronts Talisman in Calgary
Achuar grow support across Canada; condemn Talisman operations in ancestral territory
Calgary, Canada – After a two week campaign tour through four Canadian cities to raise awareness about Canada-based Talisman Energy's controversial operations in the Peruvian Amazon and culminating in the company’s hometown of Calgary, Achuar leader Peas Peas Ayui returns today to the Peruvian Amazon without a commitment from Talisman to...
Peruvian Amazon Community Wants Talisman to Stop Oil Drilling
660News | The leader of a northern Peruvian Amazon community is in Calgary to plead with Talisman Energy to withdraw their oil drilling operations from their ancestral home.
Traveling with the Achuar
"Talisman thinks you can find strategies to divide us or convince us that you should operate in our lands, but we will not let a single company operate in our territory."
Los achuar peruanos advierten que explotación petrolífera generará conflictos
EFE | El líder de los achuar, una tribu del Amazonas peruano que se opone a la explotación petrolífera en su territorio, advirtió hoy en Canadá de que si la empresa canadiense Talisman mantiene los trabajos de perforación "va a generar conflicto" en la región.
Amazonian Indigenous Leader to Confront Talisman Energy in Calgary
Talisman in spotlight at University of Calgary Press Event: Oil or the Amazon?
Traveling from the remote northern Peruvian Amazon, Peas Toronto, Canada –Peas Peas Ayui, President of the National Achuar Federation of Peru (FENAP) from the Peruvian Amazon, is in Canada seeking support from civil society organizations for the ongoing struggle to protect ancestral territory and build an oil-free future for the Achuar...
Peas Peas Confronts Talisman Energy in Canada
Achuar leader Peas Peas Ayui has traveled from the Amazon to Canada to protect his people’s ancestral territory and culture from Calgary-based Talisman Energy’s operations.
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."
Indigenous Blockade River, Thwart Talisman Operations in Peru's Amazon
Shuar join Achuar in demanding oil company abandon Block 64
Loreto, Peru – More than 100 Shuar indigenous people have blockaded the Morona River, disrupting Canadian-based Talisman Energy's exploratory drilling operations in remote oil Block 64 of the Peruvian Amazon.
