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Ecuador has started drilling for oil on the edge of a controversial block of pristine rainforest inhabited by two of the last tribes in the world living in voluntary isolation.

A slippery decision: Chevron oil pollution in Ecuador

A US appeals court on Monday (08.08.2016) blocked enforcement of an $8.6 billion (7.8 billion euro) judgment against Chevron over oil pollution in Ecuador's Amazon rainforest.

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In 2013 the Supreme Court of the Republic of Ecuador condemned Chevron to pay 9.5 billion dollars of damages, thus recognizing that the company’s activities violate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, as well as the Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador – the first in history

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One of the most dramatic impacts of oil extraction is in Ecuador’s Amazon region (el Oriente), where US oil giant Texaco seriously degraded an ecosystem

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In Ecuador, Indigenous Environmental Attitudes Affected by Proximity to Oil Extraction March 27, 2017 By Todd A. Eisenstadt & Karleen West True to essentialist stereotypes, Latin America’s indigenous peoples are the best stewards of the region’s rainforests.

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Oil drilling underway beneath Ecuador's Yasuní national park Government claims oil extraction is causing minimal disturbance to the Unesco biosphere reserve in the Amazon. John Vidal.

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Thus, although oil extraction in one of Latin America’s most biologically diverse areas has been going for almost half a century, Ecuador’s present and future lies in oil companies expanding

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The development of large African palm oil plantations in Ecuador's Amazonian province of Napo has become a sensitive issue for this small South American country.

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Ecuador and Gabon. New technologies and rising prices have increased the volume of offshore oil extraction, resulting in areas such as the Gulf of Guinea off Africa emerging as a major global hydrocarbon supplier. However, Bergesen and Haugland (2000) show that natural resource the African oil and gas industry and, of course, Africa as the

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Oil extraction will now go ahead. If the international support was strong, and organisation effective, schemes such as this could be a way of protecting biodiversity in fossil fuel rich areas.

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Ecopolitics in postneoliberal Ecuador are characterized by a dichotomy between oil extraction and mining, with the former cast as a site of neoliberal policy failure and the latter promoted by the state as a populist endeavor.

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Situated where some of Ecuador’s last unspoiled wilderness meets its oil frontier, it is a good place to see what a resource extraction boom entering its sixth decade can do to a rainforest. It can be easy to forget the surrounding presence of industry during the slow river ride to Guiyero.

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Large expansion of oil industry in the Ecuadorian Amazon

In Ecuador, oil extraction began in the early 1920s, with a significant increase in production since the 1970s, after the discovery of a rich oil field beneath the Amazon rainforest (Center for Economic and Social Rights, 1994).

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The restitution judgment found that pollution was caused due to the use of inadequate and obsolete oil extraction methods by Texaco between 1964 and 1990, including the deliberate disposal of toxic waste and crude oil in the Ecuadorian rainforest.

Ecuador's conflict between oil extraction, indigenous

The question is whether UN-REDD or Socio Bosque can stop oil extraction and if so, how? Ecuador is home to the Yasuní initiative, which is supposed to leave oil below the Yasuní National Park in return for US$3.6 billion – about half the value of the oil. But the money has not appeared.

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Chevron intentionally discharged into Ecuador's rainforest more than 30 times the amount of oil spilled in the Exxon Valdez disaster. Much to Chevron's dismay, 30,000 rainforest dwellers stood up to this corporate goliath and filed a historic class-action lawsuit in Ecuador against the company in 2003.

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The complete stop of the oil exploration and extraction in the Yasuni National Park, and the restoration of the area. Campaign for way out from extractivism, as the slogan "yasunizar" suggests. Call for a referendum about the ITT oil exploitation, which was accomplished by the Yasunidos coalition, and the recognition of people's voice.

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A Rainforest Chernobyl In 1964, Texaco (now Chevron), discovered oil in the remote northern region of the Ecuadorian Amazon, known as the "Oriente." The indigenous inhabitants of this pristine rainforest, including the Cofán, Siona, Secoya, Kichwa and Huaorani, lived traditional lifestyles largely untouched by modern civilization.

Ecuador Exposes Rain Forest to Oil Extraction Effort

Thousands of species of plant and wildlife call Ecuador's Yasuni National Park home, but it is believed that beneath the lush floor lies $7.2 billion of oil.

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However, women of the Indigenous Amazonian communities and nationalities arrived in Quito, Ecuador’s capital, to demand an end of mining activities and oil extraction in their region.

A slippery decision: Chevron oil pollution in Ecuador

The Ecuador Supreme Court had ruled in 2011 that Chevron owed $9.5 billion (equivalent at the time) in compensation for dumping more than 18 billion gallons (68 billion liters) of oil and toxic

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The Sarayaku are one of the indigenous groups of Ecuador that have taken their fight against oil extraction practices in Ecuador to court. They are leading the fight to halt extraction in the area and keep oil in the ground.

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In the Lake Albert region of Uganda, for example, the government foresees a $3.6 billion oil profit per year starting in 2018—a sum almost as high as the country's current annual budget . However, oil extraction in the East African Great Lakes region poses grave risks to the environment and local communities.

Big Oil's Impact in the Rainforest

The extraction of oil is responsible for the deforestation, degradation, and environmental devastation of lands across the globe. The oil extraction process results in the release of toxic drilling by-products into local rivers, while broken pipelines and leakage result in persistent oil spillage.

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Ecuador's conflict between oil extraction, indigenous

The threat to Ecuador’s Indigenous Peoples and their forests is not REDD, it is the oil industry. But so far, neither UN-REDD nor Socio Bosque have managed

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Ecuador Bars Oil Extraction, Logging from Indigenous Zone

QUITO, Ecuador, January 12, 2007 (ENS) – To protect indigenous groups who voluntarily isolate themselves from the modern world, the Ecuadorian government has declared a two million acre zone in an oil-rich region of the Amazon off limits to oil development and logging.

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The African continent is home to five of the top 30 oil-producing countries in the world. It accounted for more than 8.7 million barrels per day in 2014, which is about 9.4% of world output for

Ecuador Begins Drilling for Oil in Pristine Corner of Amazon

"This is the worst imaginable place to be drilling for oil. The world can simply not afford to lose a place like Yasuni," Kevin Koenig, Ecuador program director at Amazon Watch, said in a statement.

Oil Extraction: How Oil Production Impacts the Rainforest

The extraction of oil is responsible for the deforestation, degradation, and environmental devastation of lands across the globe. The oil extraction process results in the release of toxic drilling by-products into local rivers, while broken pipelines and leakage result in persistent oil spillage.

Oil extraction imperils Africa's Great Lakes | Science

In the Lake Albert region of Uganda, for example, the government foresees a $3.6 billion oil profit per year starting in 2018—a sum almost as high as the country's current annual budget . However, oil extraction in the East African Great Lakes region poses grave risks to the environment and local communities.

Ecuador votes to reduce oil exploitation in Yasuní

In a recent referendum, 67.5 percent of Ecuador’s voting population voted in favor increasing Yasuní National Park’s Intangible Zone by at least 50,000 hectares and reducing the oil

Oil extraction threatens to expand further into Ecuadorean

Manari Ushigua, president of the Sápara Nation of Ecuador warns against oil extraction destroying their rainforest, their mountains and contaminating the water, all of them key resources for

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Amazon threatened by China-Ecuador loans for oil | China

Contracts were inked in 2015 for two new oil concessions in a remote area of Ecuador's southern Amazon with Andes Petroleum, a subsidiary of China National Petroleum Company (CNPC), and SINOPEC, a move to ensure the production of oil with which Ecuador can