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    Chevron AGM 2009 Action

    Representatives of indigenous and farming communities from Ecuador's Amazon have brought their 15-year battle for justice to Chevron's doorstep.

    May 2009
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    Protests in Peru

    Awajun indigenous protesters in Bagua, northern Peru, where armed police put many of them into hospital in a May 10th attack on their peaceful blockade of the Corral Quemado Bridge.

    April - May 2009
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    Ecuador Oil Spill Pollutes River in the Amazon

    A rupture in Ecuador's second largest oil pipeline polluted the Santa Rosa river in the lush Amazon jungle and shut off the flow of crude to a Pacific port in the city of Esmeraldas.

    February 2009
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    S.O.S. Amazon

    View photos of indigenous people from across Latin America leading over 1000 participants of the World Social Forum to form human banners, using their bodies to draw attention to the increasingly precarious situation of the Amazon rainforest.

    January 2009
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    Urubamba River Peru Field Investigation

    Amazon Watch and the local communities are deeply concerned that the impacts of the existing Camisea gas project are likely to be compounded by additional oil operations planned nearby by Spain's Repsol and Brazil's Petrobras.

    June 18, 2008
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    A Toxic Legacy of Oil in Block 1ab in Corrientes River

    On May 1, 2008, Indigenous leaders from the Peruvian Amazon and environmentalists donned hazmat suits and staged a major "clean-up operation" outside the global headquarters of Occidental Petroleum (Oxy) to urge the company to remediate a toxic disaster it created in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest.

    May 2008
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    Chevron AGM 2008 Action

    In a dramatic face-to-face showdown at Chevron's annual general meeting, victims of the company's grave human rights abuses from three continents today told shareholders and senior executives that the oil major must live up to its corporate rhetoric on human rights and the environment, and also take decisive action to make amends to the...

    May 2008
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    Save the Yasuni Rainforest

    The Ecuadorian government's offer to forgo oil development in the ITT portion of Yasuni would be a giant first step towards breaking Ecuador's dependence on oil. Ecologists and indigenous leaders in Ecuador join in formation to send a message to the World about Saving Yasuni Park.

    June 2007
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    ConocoPhillips Oil Projects vs. Indigenous Communities in the Amazon

    The Shuar, Achuar, and Kichwa have denounced plans for oil extraction in Blocks 23 and 24 since the Ecuadorian government first awarded the concessions. Instead, they are calling for a plan to permanently protect the vast roadless rainforest region and promote sustainable development.

    May 2006
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    The Chevron Toxic Legacy

    Between 1971 and 1991, Texaco extracted more than 1.5 billion barrels of oil from the Ecuadorian Amazon. In order to save millions of dollars, Texaco simply dumped the toxic wastes from its operations into the pristine rivers, forest streams and wetlands, ignoring industry standards.

    March - April 2006
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