Financial Times | The US Overseas Private Investment Corporation is today expected to approve a Dollars 200m loan for a gas pipeline in Bolivia, a project opposed by 60 environmental groups in 25 countries.Opic, which promotes US foreign investment by offering financing and political risk insurance, has recently approved new stricter en
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Enron Pipeline in Bolivia Gets U.S. Loan Guarantee
Houston Chronicle Washington | Washington — The federal government Tuesday agreed to provide $200 million worth of loan guarantees to an Enron Corp.-led group to help fund construction of a controversial, natural gas pipeline that will cut through a tropical forest in Bolivia.
Environment: U.S. Set to Finance Bolivian Gas Project
Inter Press Service | Washington - The Overseas Private Investment Corp. (OPIC), a major U.S.
U'wa Chieftans Carry Eco-Fight to Doorstep of Corporate America
The Wall Street Journal | Malibu, Calif.
Environment: Warnings on Risky Projects in Amazon Region
Inter Press Service | Washington, Oct. 1 - Investors from multinational corporations and financial lending institutions are being urged to weigh the potential environmental risks of investing in certain infrastructure projects in the Amazon.
Amazon Watch is building on more than 25 years of radical and effective solidarity with Indigenous peoples across the Amazon Basin.
Tensions Rise in Venezuela's Amazon
Associated Press | El Dorado, Venezuela — The Pemon Indians rolled a huge log across the highway to block traffic. The tribe, some dressed in red loin cloths and their faces streaked with paint, was defending its piece of paradise.
Los Tres Expedientes que están en la Corte Serán Conocidos por la Sala Plena CSJ Se Tardará Más en Decidir sobre Imataca
El Universal | Caracas - Por decisión del máximo tribunal del país, la Sala Plena será la única que conozca los tres expedientes relacionados con el caso de Imataca, los cuales fueron abiertos luego de recibir medidas cautelares innominadas y solicitudes de nulidad del decreto 1850, que permite la explotación minera en dicha reserva f
Funds Flowing for Construction of Venezuela-Brazil Power Grid
Miami Herald | Caracas - A Brazilian electricity company received a $55 million loan from the Andean Development Corp.
Controversial Amazon Power Line Gets Funding
Reuters | Caracas - A Latin American development bank on Tuesday granted a $55 million loan to build a controversial power line linking Venezuelan and Brazil through the Amazon jungle which is fiercely opposed by indigenous and environmental groups.
Venezuela Indians Defend Park
Associated Press Writer | Caracas, Venezuela — About 400 Indians blocked Venezuela's main highway to Brazil with huge logs to protest a high-voltage power line being built in the "Lost World'' of Amazon rain forests.
Venezuela Indians Defend Park
Associated Press | Caracas, Venezuela — About 400 Indians blocked Venezuela's main highway to Brazil with huge logs to protest a high-voltage power line being built in the "Lost World'' of Amazon rain forests.
Amazonian Indian Tribes on the Barricades to Protest International Powerline Destruction of Their Rainforest Environment
VHeadline/VENews | Caracas - Venezuelan Pemon indians have set up roadblocks on the arterial continental highway from Brazil in a major protest over the construction of electricity power transmission lines which have cut a 400 kilometer (250 mile) swathe through tropical Amazon rainforest affecting some 5,500 acres in the ecologically sensitive
Venezuela Indians Block Road to Protest Power Line
Reuters | Caracas - Hundreds of Venezuelan Indians blocked the main highway to Brazil on Tuesday to protest the construction of a power line connecting the two countries through their homelands.Indigenous leaders said construction of the 430-mile (690 km) link was ruining their livelihood and destroying vast tracts of national p
OPIC Approves $200M Bolivian Loan
Associated Press | Washington - The Overseas Private Investment Corporation approved a $200 million loan today for a gas pipeline in Bolivia, a project opposed by environmental groups and some U.S. lawmakers. OPIC, which promotes U.S.
US Agency OKs $200 Mln for Gas Pipeline
Reuters | Washington - The U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) approved $200 million in financing Tuesday to help pay for a controversial natural gas pipeline project in Bolivia being developed by Enron Corp. (NYSE:ENE - news) and Royal Dutch/Shell Group .
Colombia Tribe Leader Takes Message to Occidental
Reuters | Santa Monica, Calif. - Roberto Cobaria sees blood beneath the cloud forests of northeastern Colombia.
5 Arrested in Protest against Occidental
Los Angeles Times | Five environmentalists protesting Occidental Petroleum Corp.'s plan to build an oil pipeline in Colombia were arrested Wednesday on suspicion of trespassing and vandalism.
Environmentalists Detained in Anti-Oil Protest
Reuters | Los Angeles - Environmental activists chained themselves to an oil drum in front of Occidental Petroleum Co.'s headquarters here on Wednesday to protest the company's plans to drill on land claimed by a Colombian tribe.
Amazon Indigenous Groups Oppose Infrastructure Projects
Inter-Press Service | Washington - Indigenous groups in the Amazon Basin of Latin America, the most biologically diverse rainforest on earth, are pushing ahead to oppose infrastructure projects they believe will lead to the destruction of their homelands.
Demonstrators Protest at Occidental
United Press International | Los Angeles - The leader of a band of Colombian Indians who have threatened mass suicide if Occidental Petroleum drills for oil on what the tribe contends is their territory joined about 50 demonstrators in Los Angeles calling for the company to stop the project.
ENVIRONMENT-AMAZON: Infrastructure Plans Threaten Amazonia
InterPress Service | ATT EDS: Please relate the following to 'ENVIRONMENT-BRAZIL: Indigenous Communities Fend Off Gold Miners', moved from Brazil/ Boa Vista, Brazil - Soldiers dressed in olive-green camouflage uniforms sit high up in the cabins of three bright yellow bulldozers, maneouvering their way up the uneven dirt r
Indians Threaten Mass Suicide to Safeguard Oil-Rich Land
National Catholic Reporter - The Independent Lay-Edited Catholic Newsweekly | Los Angeles - It was a collision of wildly contrasting worlds that occurred on May 6: in a Beverly Hills corporate office Roberto Cobaria, the council president of 23 communities of the indigenous U'wa people of Colombia, sang a song in the language of his people to three top executives of the Occidental Oil and Gas Corporati
Occidental Offers to Meet with Indians
Reuters | Santa Monica, Calif.
Colombian Tribe Has OXY over a Barrel Business: Indigenous People Vow Mass Suicide if Company Goes after Oil under Disputed Territory
Los Angeles Times | Oil companies have encountered some tough opponents and have suffered their share of black eyes. But never have they come up against a dilemma like the one Occidental Petroleum of Los Angeles faces in the wilds of Colombia.
