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10 Dec 2013- 10:18 by OOSKAnews Correspondent SANTIAGO, Chile Researchers from Chile’s Center for Environmental Technologies (CETAM) have found a link between urban pollution and glacier retreat in the Andes region. A CETAM study found that pollutant particulates from the Chilean capital, Santiago,
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14 Nov 2013- 10:13 by OOSKAnews Correspondent QUITO, Ecuador The Ecuadorian Supreme Court this week upheld the liability finding against US oil giant Chevron Corporation for contamination in the nation’s Amazon region, although it reduced the company’s fine by half-- from $19 billion USD to $9.5
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8 Nov 2013- 10:19 by OOSKAnews Correspondent LONDON, United Kingdom International human rights group Amnesty International has accused Royal Dutch Shell, through its Nigerian subsidiary, Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd., of falsifying investigative reports on oil spills in the
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24 Oct 2013- 09:51 by Local Press Report LONDON WWF Global Plans by London-based oil company Soco International PLC to explore for oil in a fragile African World Heritage Site have hit firm opposition from the UK government. In a written response to a question on the issue posed by a fellow UK
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16 Sep 2013- 10:02 by OOSKAnews Correspondent LONDON, United Kingdom After Niger Delta communities rejected a compensation offer from Shell, calling the offer ridiculously low and an insult, a London court is now expected to decide how much the company will pay those affected by major oil spills on
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10 Sep 2013- 06:52 by Local Press Report QUITO France 24 US oil giant Chevron, hit in Ecuador with a record $19 billion fine for pollution, asked Monday for the court to consider what it claimed was "new evidence" the judge in the case was corrupt. In a statement in Quito, the company--
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27 Aug 2013- 10:22 by OOSKAnews Correspondent QUITO, Ecuador The Ecuadorian Water Agency (SENAGUA) has awarded water licenses to allow drilling to start at the Cascabel copper-gold mine in Imbabura Province, in the country’s north. Cornerstone Capital Resources Inc. announced on August 22 that it
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21 Aug 2013- 09:52 by Local Press Report QUITO Care2 Ecuador is abandoning an innovative plan that would have protected the Amazon rainforest from oil drilling due to lack of support from other nations and pressure to fulfill its international debts. The move not only comes as a blow to the
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11 Jul 2013- 10:03 by OOSKAnews Correspondent QUITO, Ecuador Efforts to clean up the Petroecuador oil spill in Ecuador’s Amazon region are continuing, with the National Secretary of Risk Management reporting this week that it has delivered a total of 190 55-gallon water tanks to communities in
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7 Jun 2013- 10:01 by OOSKAnews Correspondent QUITO, Ecuador Petroamazonas EP, a unit of state oil company Petroecuador, announced late last week that itplans to increase its reserves by 600 million barrels using enhanced oil recovery (EOR) techniques, primarily water injection. The company will
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31 May 2013- 09:20 by Local Press Report LIMA Reuters Protests in northern Peru over the $5 billion Conga gold mine make "no sense" and could spell the end of the project if they succeed in preventing the draining of a nearby lake, the project's junior partner said on Thursday.
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