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This lush expanse of Amazon rainforest, close to the Yasuni Nature Reserve, will be home to an oil drilling operation from Ecuador's state oil company Petroamazonas for the first time ever, which seeks to tap into the large Tiputini oil field. Ecuadorian Vice-President Jorge Glas was present to inaugurate the drilling of the oil reserve, the biggest in the Andean country. The Tiputini field is expected to produce 1.67 billion barrels per year. After years of debate, Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa's government gave state-owned oil company Petroamazonas the green light to drill in the Ishpingo-Tambococha-Tiputini (ITT) block, just outside of the Yasuni nature reserve. Environmental activists had called for a referendum on the decision but this was denied by the Correa government. The decision has been met with criticism from indigenous-rights and environmental groups.
Francisco de Orellana, Sep 1 (EFE).- The Coca River's chocolaty color and collapsed banks are a reflection of an incident that for many indigenous populations has been a historical divide, splitting their way of life and livelihood into before and after.It happened on Apr. 7 when, at about 80 km (50 miles) upstream, near the slopes of the Reventador volcano, three conduits of two pipelines that go from the Amazon to the Ecuadorian coast ruptured due to a landslide in a highly seismic region.It only took a little while for the crude oil to go downstream into the Amazonian provinces of Sucumbíos and Orellana to reach Napo, where it was equally lucky. (Camera: JUAN FRANCISCO CHÁVEZ). SHOT LIST: INDIGENOUS PEOPLE FROM THE AMARUMESA COMMUNITY SHOWS OIL RESIDUES IN THE CITY OF FRANCISCO DE ORELLANA, AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLE FROM VARIOUS COMMUNITIES AFFECTED BY AN OIL SPILL PARTICIPATE IN A MARCH TO DEMAND JUSTICE AND SOLUTIONS FOR THE ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL IMPACTS IN THEIR COMMUNITIES IN THE CITY OF FRANCISCO DE ORELLANA, ECUADOR.SOUND BITE: MARÍA ESPINOSA, LEGAL COORDINATOR OF AMAZON FRONTLINES (IN SPANISH). TRANSLATION: More than 27,000 indigenous people have been condemned to survive without clean water, safe food and in precarious health conditions. (03:20-03:31).
Images released by the Armed Forces show a long slick of crude oil covering the sand and reaching the sea at a tourist beach in Esmeraldas province, northwestern Ecuador. According to state-owned company Petroecuador, the oil spilled onto Las Palmas beach in the city of Esmeralda, where an oil terminal and a refinery operate. IMAGES
UN Development Programme Administrator Achim Steiner says the United nations has bought a ship to remove oil and avoid a potentially catastrophic spill from a tanker decaying for years off the coast of war-ravaged Yemen. SOUNDBITE
The United States will release 30 million barrels of oil from its Strategic Petroleum Reserve as part of an international effort to stabilize the market after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, President Joe Biden tells members of Congress in his first State of the Union address, adding that Washington stands "ready to do more, if necessary." SOUNDBITE
Huntington Beach, Oct 9 (EFE/EPA).- More than 900 people continued Friday with cleaning tasks in different parts of southern California after the spill of some 570,000 liters of oil in the waters of that area almost a week ago.This is an increase of 100 troops compared to Thursday, according to the data provided to EFE by the operations center of the Unified Command, in charge of cleaning, recovering and investigating the environmental disaster. (Camera: ARCHIVE). ARCHIVE FOOTGAE SHOWS TAR ACCUMULATES ON THE SHORE AND CONTAMINATED SAND AFTER AN OIL SPILL OFF THE COAST OF HUNTINGTON BEACH, AND CREWS PICK THE TAR FROM THE BEACH AFTER AN OIL SPILL OFF THE COAST OF HUNTINGTON BEACH, CALIFORNIA, US.
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