OneWorld US | Environmental activist groups from two continents have vowed to step uptheir fight against a foreign-financed pipeline project that would transportoil from the Ecuadorian Amazon to the Pacific after completing a 10-day touralong the 300-mile route.Speaking at a press conference at the conclusion of th
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Colombian Gov't Launches Airstrikes
The Associated Press | San Vicente del Caguan, Colombia - Military jets flew hundreds ofsorties against a major rebel stronghold Thursday, bringing Colombia's38-year civil war into a potentially bloodier phase after the peace process was abruptly halted.Bombs were falling on rebel territory just hours after President Andres
Environment-Ecuador: Activists Chained to Trees to Block Pipeline
IPS | Quito - Environmental activists are camping out in treetops and chaining themselves to trees in Ecuador's Amazon jungle as part of an international campaign to block the construction of an oil pipeline that is to run through fragile tropical forest and highland ecosystems.
THE ENRON COLLAPSE Global Wreckage Comes to Light Enron Pioneered Risky Foreign Investments Countries, U.S.-Backed Lenders Survey Damage
Washington Post | Washington - With operations in 20 countries, Enron Corp. set out in the early 1990s to become an international energy trailblazer, with grandiose projects and huge U.S. government-backed investments in places no other company would go.
Enron Spanned the Globe with High-Risk Projects Deals Lost Money but Helped Hide Troubles
Washington Post | With operations in 20 countries, Enron Corp. set out in the early 1990s to become an international energy trailblazer, with grandiose projects and huge U.S. government-backed investments in places no other company would go.Enron launched bold projects in poverty-ravaged countries such as Nigeria and Nicaragua.
Amazon Watch is building on more than 25 years of radical and effective solidarity with Indigenous peoples across the Amazon Basin.
Fighting for Colombian Oil
SF CHRONICLE LEAD EDITORIAL | Pushing deeper into the Colombian quagmire, President Bush is proposing a major escalation of U.S. involvement in that country's civil war.
The United States Will Protect its Interests in Colombia
El Tiempo | Interview with U.S. Ambassador to Colombia, Anne PattersonQuestion: As part of the United States budget for 2003, the Bushadministration proposed spending US$98 million to protect the CañoLimón-Coveñas oil pipeline.
U.S. Plan Aims to Stem Pipeline's Flow of Trouble Colombia: White House Proposes $98-Million Aid Package to Help Bogota Combat Rebel Attacks on Caño Limon Artery
Special To The Times | Arauca, Colombia - It may have been the damp in the earth seeping into the bomb, or a faulty connection. Alex Ramirez is convinced it was the five amulets he wears around his neck. But for some reason, when he stepped on a rebel land mine three months ago, he survived the blast."The lights went out.
Threat of Terror Abroad Isn't New for Oil Companies Like Occidental
Wall Street Journal | Arauca, Colombia - Pools of oil gather along the Occidental pipeline that runs through this vast savanna, the result of spills from repeated bombings by rebel forces. On a recent helicopter tour, Occidental Petroleum Corp. officials got word of yet another attack.
Ecuador's Indians Threaten New Protests over Economic Policies
OIL AND GAS JOURNAL WEBSITE Screaming Media | Quito, (EFE) - Ecuadorian Indigenous Peoples Confederation (CONAIE) President Leonidas Iza on Wednesday threatened to stage protests if the government does not change its economic policies and abandon efforts to privatize electricity.
U.S. Officials Unveil Colombia Plans
The Associated Press | Bogota, Colombia - The Bush administration announced plans to help Colombia protect a strategic oil pipeline that has been a frequent target of guerrilla attacks, a dramatic departure from a policy that had previously limited aid to wiping out drug crops. The plan, outlined Tuesday by a U.S.
Occidental to Get US Assistance? Energy Co. Could Benefit from Bush Colombia Aid Plan
CBS.MarketWatch.com | Los Angeles - If the White House has its way, Occidental Petroleum's Colombian oil operations could be getting some spanking new security courtesy of the U.S.
The Bush Oil-igarchy's Pipeline Protection Package
Arianna Huffington | With the stench of Enron growing more acrid each day, you'd think the last thing President Bush would want is to be seen toadying to anotherdeep-pocketed energy giant.Well, you'd be wrong.In a shameless handout to a poor-little-me corporate mendicant, thepresident wants to spend close to $100 m
Ecuador Pipeline Makes New Enemies
Energy Compass | Opposition to Ecuador's heavy crude oil pipeline (OCP) has been building for10 years.
Kerr-McGee Exits Embattled Ecuador Pipeline
Oil Daily | US independent producer Kerr-McGee will sell its stake in two oil blocks in Ecuador and its share in the embattled OCP heavy crude oil pipeline to small French firm Perenco. Kerr-McGee is exiting Ecuador to concentrate on its operations in the US and the UK.
Environment-Ecuador: Pipeline Project Subject of "Deep Concern"
Inter Press Service | Washington - The World Bank has quietly communicated deep concern to the managers and lenders of a major pipeline project that independent environmental groups have said threatens unique ecosystems in the Ecuadorean highlands.
Activists Claim Win on Ecuador Pipeline
One World US | Environmental activists in Ecuador are claiming a tentative victory in their long fight to prevent the construction of an oil pipeline through one of the world's most pristine bird sanctuaries, the Mindo Namibillo Cloudforest Reserve, high in the Andean mountains in the country's Amazon region.
Colombian Tribes Hold Rally Against 'Genocide'
Associated Press | Cota, Colombia — Dressed with colorful tribal dresses, hundreds ofColombian Indians gathered in this village on Monday to demonstrate againsta 37-year-old guerrilla war they say is causing their extinction."We are victims of a systematic genocide that is killing us off," saidArmando Valbuena, presid
Greenpeace Wants WestLB to Cancel OCP Pipeline Financing
Dow Jones Newswires | Duesseldorf - Environmental pressure group Greenpeace Tuesday called onWestdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale AG (G.WLG) to cancel its financing ofthe $1.12 billion OCP crude oil pipeline project that is to be built throughrain forest areas in northwest Ecuador.During a demonstration at WestLB's Duessel
Tribal Activists Killed in Colombia
Associated Press | Bogota, Colombia - Dozens of gunmen targeted Indian activists inwestern Colombia, killing five and threatening several others, an Indianleader said Sunday, blaming the violence on right-wing paramilitaryfighters.The attack occurred late Saturday on an Indian reservation near Rio Sucio,125 miles
Rightist Gunmen Said to Kill Colombian Indian Leader
Reuters | Bogota, Colombia - Suspected far-right gunmen have killed aprominent Indian activist in the western Colombian countryside as heprepared to leave for a national native conference, an indigenous leadersaid on Sunday.Luis Angel Charrua was gunned down together with at least two other men nearthe vi
"Monos" Protestan por Destrucción de Selva en Ecuador
El Comercio | Berlín - Una treintena de activistas de Greenpeace disfrazados de monos cortaron hoy con una sierra la escultura de un globo terráqueo, en una acción de protesta frente a un banco estatal de D~sseldorf (oeste de Alemania) al que acusan de contribuir a la destrucción de la selva de Ecuador.Greenpeace acusa al banco
Protestas Contra el Oleoducto
El Universo | San Miguel de los Bancos -Miembros de grupos ecologistas obstaculizaron ayer los trabajos que efectúa la empresa Techint, a cargo de la construcción del Oleoducto de Crudos Pesados (OCP), en el sector de San Miguel de Los Bancos, a unos 100 kilómetros al noroccidente de Quito.
A Dangerous Appetite for Oil
NY Times OP-ED | Adison, Wis. - For 70 years, oil has been responsible for more of America's international entanglements and anxieties than any other industry.
Ecuador: Glimmer of Hope
Energy Compass | If it's not being pressured in the north by incursions from left-wing Colombian rebels or in the south by political tensions with neighboring Peru – with which it's been to war three times since World War II, most recently in 1995 – Ecuador faces protests from disaffected locals.
Global Protests Against Ecuador Pipeline
OneWorld US | Washington - Scores of demonstrators turned out in more than a dozen capitals across Europe and in the United States and Australia Wednesday to protest the involvement of Germany's largest publicly held bank in a controversial oil pipeline project in the Ecuador's Amazon region.Supporters and representatives of indigen
Brazil Searches for More Energy
New York Times | Altamira, Brazil - Nearly 2,000 miles to the south, in the huge cities ofRio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, electricity is being rationed and blackoutsare a greater threat.
OCP: Protestas Terminan en Paz
el Comercio | Quito - Una protesta de ecologistas ecuatorianos contra la construcción de un nuevo Oleoducto para Crudos Pesados (OCP) concluyó tras un desalojo pacífico de los huelguistas que ocupaban instalaciones de la firma constructora.La portavoz del grupo Acción Ecológica, Ivonne Ramos, indicó a EFE que
Militares Vigilarán Construcción del OCP
el Comercio | Quito -Un centenar de militares resguardará la construcción de un nuevo oleoducto para crudos pesados en Ecuador, cuya ejecución provocó una protesta por parte de ecologistas y estudiantes, quienes mantenían bloqueado el sábado el maquinarias por un área de importancia biológica.Los uni
