St. Petersburg Times | Cubara, Colombia - Roberto Perez feels defeated. And it's not just because he is winded and sweating after climbing a steep mountain slope near this ranching and farming town.
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Oil Spill in Desaguadero: the Increase and Growth of Oil Disasters
NOTICIAS FOBOMADE | Economic, social, environmental and cultural impacts of oil company activities in Bolivia are increasingly negative and growing.
Cents and Sensibility Animal Rights Extremists are Targeting Big Money - but Risk Alienating Activists Already Persuading the City that Ethical Investment Works
The Guardian | Ten days ago, the City of London police were present in force outside Fidelity Investments in case a demonstration against the British arm of the giant US-based global pension house got out of control.
The U'was' Last Stand Colombian Indians vs. Occidental Petroleum
U.S.News | Cubara, Colombia – The clatter of two military transport helicopters landing in a nearby mountain clearing signaled that time was up for the ragged band of Indian demonstrators.
Pipeline Bursts in Bolivian Highlands, Spews Unchecked for Thirty Hours
Reuters | A pipeline owned by the oil consortium Transredes burst on January 30 and reportedly spewed oil for 30 hours before valves were finally shut off.
Amazon Watch is building on more than 25 years of radical and effective solidarity with Indigenous peoples across the Amazon Basin.
Battle for the Sacred Oil
The Guardian | The U'wa tribe of Colombia is remote, little studied, less visited and, until recently, barely registered on the barometer of western or even local Colombian awareness. But in the past two years its fight with Occidental Petroleum (Oxy) has become an international cause celebre.
Students Protest Oil-Drilling Program: Colombia Natives' Lands in Jeopardy
Calgary Herald | About 40 placard-waving University of Calgary students chanted slogans and handed out literature Thursday to protest Occidental Petroleum's drilling program near sacred land in Colombia.
Fidelity a Target in Oil Protest
Boston Globe | Environmental and human rights groups yesterday demonstrated outside Fidelity Investments offices in Boston and 19 other cities to protest the mutual fund company's stake in Occidental Petroleum Corp., which plans to drill for oil on land claimed by the U'wa Indians in Colombia.
Groups Protest Fidelity over Oil Drilling in Colombia
The Associated Press | About 80 protestors waved placards and banners outside Fidelity Investments to protest the mutual fund company's holdings in a company that plans to drill for oil in Colombia.
Protesters Target Fidelity in Dispute over Oil Drilling
The Boston Herald | Housewife Kathy Kerridge opened her first individual retirement account with Fidelity Investments in 1987 and now owns shares in various mutual funds run by the industry's largest firm.But the mother of two said yesterday that she may consider pulling her money out if Fidelity doesn't act soon to pressure the Occidenta
Webs of Influence
The New York Times Company | Al Gore believes his role in streamlining the federal bureaucracy was one of his major achievements as vice president. The sale at auction of the huge, government-owned Elk Hills oil field in Bakersfield, Calif., to the Occidental Petroleum Company grew out of that effort. The winning bid was $3.65 billion.
Protest Targets Fidelity Holdings
USA TODAY | Protesters plan marches on Fidelity Investments' offices in 22 cities today to press the mutual fund giant to dump shares in an oil company drilling on land claimed by an indigenous tribe in Colombia.The protests mark the first time a mutual fund company has been targeted by human-rights groups and environmentalists campaigni
Fidelity, Gore Urged to Help Block Colombian Occidental Venture
Bloomberg | 19:6 (New York) Fidelity, Gore Urged to Help Block Colombian Occidental Venture Washington - Environmental activists are urging Fidelity Investments and U.S. Vice President Al Gore either to divest their holdings in Occidental Petroleum Corp.
Media Silence on Al Gore: Why Haven't Reporters Questioned Him about His Ties to Oxy? The Sound of Silence is Deafening
TomPaine.com | For decades, Vice President Gore has been receiving $20,000 annual payments from Occidental Petroleum, ostensibly for the mineral rights on land. But the company has never used the land, and the Gores currently rent it out to a competing firm. So what does the firm get for its money? The answer is not clear.
From Piglet to Firing Squad . . . or the Ignorance of the International Community
Oilwatch | A few years ago, one afternoon while it was raining in Chuscal (U'wa territory), a U'wa woman from a family of the Tegria told us about their first contact with the multinational oil company Oxy.
From Piglet to Firing Squad . . . or the Ignorance of the International Community
Oilwatch | A few years ago, one afternoon while it was raining in Chuscal (U'wa territory), a U'wa woman from a family of the Tegria told us about their first contact with the multinational oil company Oxy.
Drilling for Trouble: Should Gore Stop Oxy?
Time Magazine | TIME Notebook: The Veep faces pressure to stop Occidental Petroleum from drilling on Indian lands in Colombia When President Clinton proposed giving $1.6 billion in military aid to fight drug lords in Colombia last week, he probably never thought of the U'Wa Indians.
Bought and Paid for Gore's Oily Family Friends, Bush's Profitable Harvard Connections and Other Stories You're Not Likely to Read about
Salon.com | Vice President Al Gore delivered a scathing speech back on Oct.
Gore Attacked over Colombia Oil Project
The Financial Times. | Environmentalists and human rights activists are accusing Al Gore, the US vice-president and candidate for the Democratic party presidential nomination, of hypocrisy over his shareholding in an oil company prospecting in Colombian rainforests.
Gas Line Draws Protests Nature Groups Cite U.S. Role
The Miami Hearld | Santa Cruz, Bolivia - In violation of Clinton administration policies,U.S. taxpayer dollars are being used to finance a gas pipeline through aglobally rare forest ecosystem, environmental groups say. U.S.
Clinton Regime Ripped for Supporting Pipeline; Environmentalists Contend Project in Bolivia, Brazil Harms Ecosystems
The Washington Times | DATELINE: Santa Cruz, Bolivia BODY: Santa Cruz, Bolivia - Environmentalists say U.S. government financing is being misused to finance a gas pipeline through a rare forest ecosystem in violation of the Clinton administration's own policies.
How the Gores, Father and Son, Helped Their Patron Occidental Petroleum And: Uranium Deal Helps Benefactors, but Costs Taxpayers $2.1 Billion
The Center for Public Integrity | Washington - On Sept. 7, 1995, Vice President Albert Gore Jr., stood on the White House lawn and talked in sweeping terms about ending the era of big government.
Colombia Indians to Fight Occidental Oil Plans with Lives
The Washington Times | Bogota - The U'wa Indians of northeastern Colombia say the government will have to kill every last member of their tribe before they allow California-based Occidental Petroleum Corp.
When Politicians' Acts Benefit Benefactors
Inquirer Washington Bureau | Washington - It was part of Vice President Gore's plan to streamline and "reinvent" government: Sell off a 47,000-acre oil field in Southern California. The taxpayers would benefit.But so did one company: Occidental Petroleum, which eventually bought the land through competitive bidding in 1997.
Energy Projects Opposed Latin Indians Using Sabotage
Miami Herald | Kilometer 33, Venezuela - Across Latin America, indigenous groups are locked in power struggles with authorities over large energy projects on their lands, and the twisted metal of a toppled steel pylon in a jungle clearing here is sign of the latest clash.
Indigenous Rights Recognized
EL NACIONAL | The drums resounded in the capital building until the Assembly approved guarantee as constitutional rights the existence of indigenous peoples and communities, their social and economic organization, culture, uses and customs.
Reconocen Derechos a los Pueblos Indígenas
EL NACIONAL | Los tambores retumbaron en el Capitolio Federal hasta que la Asamblea aprobó consagrar como derechos constitucionales la existencia de los pueblos y comunidades indígenas, su organización social y económica, cultura, usos y costumbres.
Occidental and Oriental Connections
Wall St. Journal | Carthage, Tenn. - On his 1998 tax returns under "supplemental income," Vice President Al Gore lists a $20,000 royalty payment from Union Zinc Inc. for the right to mine zinc from his 88-acre farm here in the verdant hills of the Cumberland River valley. In the 25 years he has held the zinc lease, Mr.
Despite Image, Gore Has Deep Roots in Oil Industry
Reuters | New York - Democratic Presidential front-runner Vice President Al Gore has nurtured his image as the nation's top environmental advocate, but a close look shows his roots in the oil industry run almost as deep those of his Republican rival, Texas Governor George W.
