Wall Street Journal | "The lakes and rivers sustain us; they flow through the veins of the earth and into our own.
The Associated Press | Bogota, Colombia - Riot police on Saturday broke upa road blockade by Colombian Indians protesting oilexploration by a U.S. company. A representative of the U'wa Indian tribe claims two of theprotesters were shot by police.
Newsweek International | On most subjects, Ebaristo Tegria can be calm, articulate, asbuttoned-down as the shirts he wears and as rational as thecomputer on his desk. But words just about fail the 30-year-oldColombian lawyer when he speaks of the people who runOccidental Petroleum.
The Nation | One of the world's hottest battles between indigenous groups and multinational oil companies is heating up in Colombia, where Occidental Petroleum is seeking to drill on land claimed by the 5,000-member U'wa tribe.
Los Angeles Times | Supporters of a semi-nomadic people from the cloud forests of northeast Colombia urged Occidental Petroleum Corp. shareholders Friday to sell their stock to protest an oil-drilling project the tribe contends is on its sacred ancestral lands.
Associated Press | Santa Monica, Calif. - Human rights activists heckled and booed Occidental Petroleum executives who defended a plan to drill near Indian lands in Colombia during the company's annual shareholders meeting Friday.
Reuters | Santa Monica, Calif. - Executives at independent oil company Occidental Petroleum Corp. (NYSE:OXY - news) on Friday touted the company's best earnings in 19 years, but were interrupted and booed by rowdy protesters decrying its plans to drill in Colombia on land disputed by native Indians.
Reuters | Bogota - A group of 25 Colombian environmental researchers and an American professor were kidnapped by suspected leftist rebels as they studied wildlife in a war-torn corner of northwest Colombia, colleagues and the army said on Thursday. U.S.
Yahoo | A Colombian court has ordered Occidental Petroleum Corp (NYSE:OXY - news) to halt all work on a promising oil site that the country's native U'wa tribe claims as part of their ancestral lands, authorities said Friday.Alberto Calderon, president of state oil company Ecopetrol, said the court injunction was handed down T
The Industry Standard | San Francisco - It's one of the richest ironies of the 2000 presidential race. Despite running a Teflon primary campaign, probable Democratic nominee Al Gore (news - web sites), a published environmental crusader, has found himself repeatedly attacked for his links to Occidental Petroleum.
THE TIMES [London] | Mr Gore has refused to answer environmentalists' calls to intercede or to talk to the press about the U'wa case.
the Oregonian | Tigard - To the beating of red plastic buckets and the chanting of "Stop the drilling; Stop, stop the killing," about 70 people crowded the entrances to the office of Fidelity Investments Friday morning, protesting the company's investment in a Los Angeles-based petroleum company.
ABC News Internet | Los Angeles — Al Gore says he’s the environmental candidate. He wrote a best-selling book on it, and it’s a central part of his presidential campaign. “I will not let you down,” stated Gore when he spoke at the League of Conservation Voters in New York on Feb. 24.
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.
NOTICIAS FOBOMADE | Economic, social, environmental and cultural impacts of oil company activities in Bolivia are increasingly negative and growing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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