El Universo | Quito - El consorcio OCP Limited considera que tiene todos los argumentos a su favor para que el Ministerio del Ambiente le otorgue la licencia ambiental, requisito clave para iniciar la construcción del Oleoducto de Crudos Pesados (OCP).
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Ambiente Insiste en Objeciones
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.
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.
Ecuador
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.
Amazon Watch is building on more than 25 years of radical and effective solidarity with Indigenous peoples across the Amazon Basin.
Bush's Dirty War: Colombia's Peasant Farmers are Being Driven Off Their Land - And We are Helping
The Guardian [London] | Bush has made no secret of the primary mission of his presidency: to remunerate the companies which supported his bid for power. To the oil industry he has given the Arctic wildlife reserve and the abandonment of American action on climate change.
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.
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.
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.
Rebel Army Took No Prisoners on the Banks of the Naya River
Los Angeles Times | Rebel Army Took No Prisoners on the Banks of the Naya River Paramilitary fighters stormed through Colombian guerrilla territory, stopping only to slaughter. At least 27 civilians died. The armed forces seemed powerless. ON THE NAYA RIVER, Colombia – The killers came at Easter.
Rebel Army Took No Prisoners on the Banks of the Naya River Paramilitary Fighters Stormed through Colombian Guerrilla Territory, Stopping Only to Slaughter - At Least 27 Civilians Died - The Armed Forces Seemed Powerless
Los Angeles Times | On the Naya River, Colombia - The killers came at Easter. They butchered 18-year-old Gladys Ipia first, slicing off her head and hands with a chain saw. Next, they killed six people at a restaurant just down the trail. They shot some, stabbed others. They hacked one man to death and then burned him.
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.
Coca Crop Survives 1st Wave
Chicago Tribune | La Hormiga, Colombia - In January, U.S.-funded fumigation planes swept over Juan Saraza's 5 acres of coca bushes in the hills of southern Colombia, leaving three-quarters of them leafless and dying.The planes "will come back to fumigate again," he predicted calmly, as field workers harvested his remaining acre of healt
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.
US Drug War Aids Colombian Paramilitaries "Since the Human-Rights Waiver was Granted the Paramilitaries Have Doubled in Size - The Number of Massacres Has Increased"
THE GUARDIAN [London] | A leading US Democratic senator has denounced Washington's billion-dollar anti-drug policy in Colombia as an expensive failure which has boosted rightwing paramilitaries while achieving negligible' results.
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.
Destruction of Amazon Jungle Hits 5 - Year High
Reuters | Brasilia, Brazil - Destruction of Brazil's Amazon rain forest jumped last year to the highest levels since 1995, prompting the government on Tuesday to pledge new controls to reduce deforestation.Logging in the world's largest tropical forest reached 7,659 square miles last year, up from 6,664 square miles in 1999, acc
Colombian Tribe is Threatened by an Encroaching Civil War
The New York Times | Simonorwa, Colombia - Spaniards in clanging armor trudged up the mountain first, subjugating Indians in the search for gold. Farmers, clear-cutting forests, came next.
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.
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.
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.
Protesters Call for End to Occidental Drilling Project Energy: Activists at Firm's Annual Meeting Say Test Well is on Sacred Native Land in Colombia
Los Angeles Times | Activists targeted Occidental Petroleum Corp.'s annual meeting Friday to press for an end to an oil-drilling project on what they say is sacred native land in Colombia, continuing what has become a noisy and angry tradition for the Los Angeles oil company.
Oxy Shareholders Stall Proposal
The Associated Press | Santa Monica, Calif - With protesters rallying outside, shareholders of Occidental Petroleum Corp.
