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Wednesday, 04 July 2007 |
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By Rune Geertsen. What does a poor government do when it
finds an oil treasure in a protected natural park? Does it choose
profit, and therefore the pollution and the cultural extinction of
indigenous people that goes with it, or does it leave the oil in the
ground and wave goodbye to millions of dollars that could be spent
fighting poverty?
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Thursday, 28 June 2007 |
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Sir,
In your issue of June 21st you dismiss the tentative decision of the new government of Ecuador to leave in the ground the one billion barrels of heavy oil in the Yasuni National Park.
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Sunday, 24 June 2007 |
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The Economist.
To be green or to be rich, must that be the question?
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Saturday, 09 June 2007 |
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Daily Grist.
Ecuador offers to keep oil in the ground for compensation
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Saturday, 09 June 2007 |
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Alonso Soto, Planet Ark .
QUITO - Ecuador offered on Tuesday to drop plans to
develop the country's biggest oilfield if wealthy nations pay it to
safeguard pristine land near the proposed drill site.
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Friday, 08 June 2007 |
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June 5th: Happy
World Environment Day! As tribute to this day when environmental issues
should take up at least some of our thinking time, it seems an
excellent chance to bring to your attention a novel plan for the ITT
oil development in Ecuador…or should that be undevelopment?
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Wednesday, 06 June 2007 |
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In recent weeks, an intense debate has been unfolding in Ecuador:
develop the massive oil fields in the heart of the country’s only
Amazonian national park, Yasuní, or leave the oil in the ground in
order to protect the park’s extraordinary biodiversity and indigenous
peoples living in voluntary isolation. Yasuní National Park is part of
the Napo Moist Forest Region, considered by many scientists to be the
most biodiverse forest on earth, with record or near record amounts of
insects, birds, monkeys, amphibians, trees, and plants.
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Tuesday, 05 June 2007 |
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By Amy E. Robertson
| Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor
President Rafael Correa launches a proposal Tuesday for
the international community to compensate Ecuador if the country
prohibits oil drilling within its rain forest.
Quito, Ecuador - –
Last year's presidential campaign posters for candidate Rafael Correa
were lime green with the slogan "Citizen Revolution" blazed across
them. Five months after taking office, the leftist leader is proposing
another revolution, and again a green one – this time to save one of
the world's most biologically rich regions.
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Friday, 01 June 2007 |
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The countries rich in natural resources are not the most highly-developed. They may well have abundant income or a high per capita GNP, but they almost always lack solid institutions and an adequate standard of living for the entire population. The virus of the «Dutch Disease», a distorted internal assignation of resources and the consolidation of a rentist mentality are some of the causes of this apparent paradox which affects particularly those Latin American countries which produce oil. In order to avoid these problems, the article proposes the inclusion of energy policy within the wider framework of a strategy for autonomous development.
J. Schuldt / A. Acosta
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Tuesday, 29 May 2007 |
UNITED NATIONS, May 18 ( IPS)
- A novel proposal by Ecuador is testing world leaders' commitment to
fight global warming and preserve the biodiversity of the Earth.
Ecuadorian
officials told an international meeting this week that their government
would ban exploitation of huge oil reserves if it was compensated for
its effort to save the natural habitat of the Amazon region.
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Tuesday, 29 May 2007 |
By
JT Nguyen, Deutsche
Presse, New
York, Petroleumworld.com
Ecuador
wants to keep the Yasuni National Park's rich biodiversity and
its estimated 900,000 barrels of oil untouched,
if the world can provide 350 million dollars a year for health
and educational programmes to the indigenous people living there.
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