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Ecuador signs permits for oil drilling in Amazon’s Yasuni national park
Drilling for oil in a part of the Amazon rainforest considered one of the most biodiverse hotspots on the planet is to go ahead less than a year after Ecuador's president lifted a moratorium on oil drilling there. Last August, Rafeal Correa scrapped a pioneering...
Why Ecuador’s president is misleading the world on Yasuni-ITT
The Ishpingo-Tambococha-Tiputini region of Yasuni contains more species in a hectare than all the wildlife in North America. Photograph: Alamy The decision by Ecuador's president Rafael Correa to abandon a plan to permanently forgo exploiting hundreds of millions of...
The war against environmentalism
Ejolt By Joan Martinez Alier. The Hindutva nationalist right-wing prime minister Modi in India is rallying against Environmental Justice Organisations (EJOs) financed by foreign money. High on his list are EJOs from Scandinavian countries or Germany, which are...
Ecuador: oil company has built ‘secret’ road deep into Yasuni National Park
Ecologist While no one had been looking, while the world wasn't watching, PetroAmazonas went ahead with a plan rejected by the Ministry of Environment years before. The existence of the 'secret road' into Yasuni, leading directly to an oil production platform, has...
Is This the Ecuador Government’s Way of Mocking the UN?
The Huffington Post There was a reason Ecuador's president, Rafael Correa, chose to announce his support for an initiative to forgo exploiting the Tiputini, Tambococha and Ishpingo oil fields under the Yasuni National Park - home to indigenous peoples and one of the...
Ecuador’s continued conflict over oil drilling, indigenous rights and biodiversity
Redd Monitor Last month, Ecuador's government approved permits for oil drilling in the Yasuní National Park. The drilling will be carried out by a subsidiary of the national oil company, Petroamazonas and will start in 2016. The permits are in the...
Yasuni, block 31: ecological trail or oil road? Technical report
Geoyasuni High Resolution Satellite Imagery Reveals Petroamazonas Violated Environmental Impact Study by Building Road into Yasuní National Park Matt Finer (a), Salvatore Eugenio Pappalardo (b), Francesco Ferrarese (c), Massimo De Marchi.[ full technical report PDF ]...
Leaked documents cast doubt on Ecuador’s commitment to forest plan
The Guardian Dolls representing the oil exploitation in the Yasuni Natural Park Ecuador's government was moving to install a power plant to exploit oil fields under the iconic Yasuni national park at the same time as pursuing a high-profile international scheme not to...
Shell says fossil fuel reserves won’t be ‘stranded’ by climate regulation
Oil major says fossil fuels will be needed through 2050 * Calls "carbon bubble" theory flawed in letter to shareholders * Says decarbonisation of energy sector will take decades * Predicts it could take rest of century to resolve climate change LONDON, May 19...
Maputo Declaration on Climate Justice
Dear friends, Justiça Ambiental (Friends of the Earth Mozambique) partnering with organisations all over the world, hosted Seeding Climate Justice: Maputo meeting on Real Solutions to the Climate Crisis, couple weeks ago. Attached here (in English & Portuguese) is...
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