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Vulture Capitalism: Grace Blakeley’s new book is smart on what has gone wrong since the 1980s

The Conversation 22 Apr 2024
As examples she cites Amazon’s success at ... Chevron, for instance, used an ISDS in 2018 to overturn a US$9.5 billion (£7.6 billion) fine imposed by Ecuador over oil pollution in the Amazon rainforest.
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‘We can’t hunt or fish’: the villages in Ecuador’s Amazon surrounded by abandoned explosives

AOL 18 Apr 2024
Ecuador prioritises the oil industry over its people’s rights ... About 63%, or 5,069,228 hectares, of Indigenous territories in Ecuador’s Amazon have concessions for fossil-fuel extraction – and the situation in Sarayaku is not an isolated case.
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Ecuador Mining

Citrus County Chronicle 06 Mar 2024
... of mining and oil, in Quito, Ecuador, Sept.
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Ecuador government weighs delaying closure of controversial ITT oil block

Mongabay 12 Feb 2024
The government in Ecuador is looking for ways to keep open a controversial oil block in the Amazon Rainforest, defying the results of a referendum to close the operation due to pollution and public health risks.
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Ecuador’s Siekopai group to return home to Amazon after 80 years

Business Day 16 Jan 2024
Giving land titles to Indigenous groups and bolstering their rights also means it is far more likely oil deposits scattered across Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest will stay in the ground — a key to meeting goals to curb climate change.
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Ecuador tightens security at energy facilities

Russia Today 10 Jan 2024
Ecuador’s oil production is regularly affected by protests and power outages ... In October, Petroecuador reported a drop in oil production due to protests by local communities at the Auca oil field, also located in Orellana in the Amazon region.
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Taking a superyacht to tour the Galapagos Islands in luxury

The Virginian-Pilot 29 Dec 2023
Impressively, this “green” airport is the only one in the universe entirely run on solar and wind power and built with recycled oil pipes from Ecuador’s Amazon region.
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Travel: Taking a superyacht to tour the Galapagos Islands in luxury

Macomb Daily 28 Dec 2023
Impressively, this “green” airport is the only one in the universe entirely run on solar and wind power and built with recycled oil pipes from Ecuador’s Amazon region.
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I was Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian's executive assistant. Here's how being an EA gave me ...

Business Insider 23 Dec 2023
Lissie Garvin ... The following account has been edited for length and clarity. I first moved to the Bay Area in 2013 ... That's a real thing ... One of our fellows, Helena Gualinga from Ecuador, has just got a bill passed to stop new oil drilling in the Amazon.
photo: Creative Commons / Murray Foubister https://www.flickr.com/people/61456446@N06
4 day trip to La Selva Lodge on the Napo River in the Amazon jungle of E. Ecuador   industrial traffic (Gas & Oil) along the River   (26866038055)
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In the Ecuadorian Amazon, oil threatens decades of Indigenous-led conservation

Grist 15 Dec 2023
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​​A Radical Idea to Break the Logic of Oil Drilling

The Atlantic 11 Dec 2023
... oil producers, Colombia is—or should be—another case like Ecuador ... “But who buys 50 percent of their oil from Ecuador in the Amazon? The state of California ... Colombia and Ecuador will run out of oil.
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Climate 'tipping points' can be positive too—our report sets out how to engineer a domino ...

Phys Dot Org 09 Dec 2023
... transition to wind power, Columbia's signature on the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, or Ecuador's vote to ban oil drilling in the Amazon—involves a much longer backstory of political struggle.
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Climate 'tipping points' can be positive too – our report sets out how to engineer ...

The Conversation 07 Dec 2023
... to wind power, Columbia’s signature on the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, or Ecuador’s vote to ban oil drilling in the Amazon – involves a much longer backstory of political struggle.
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The World Next Year: Stories to Watch in 2024

Council on Foreign Relations 05 Dec 2023
We saw a country with high amounts of fossil fuels, Ecuador, vote in a referendum to ban oil drilling in part of its Amazon rainforest. This is the first time in history a country's citizens voted to halt oil production.
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