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Ecuador Tribe in Rare Visit to Help Clean-Up Lousiana Oil Spill...
Jun 30, 2010, Al Jazeera
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Hurricane Alex, with winds of up to 100km an hour, is hampering efforts to clean-up the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
The state department has welcomed help from 12 countries offering to assist with the clean-up.
And there has been a rare offer of support from an indigenous community from Ecuador for another indigenous tribe in Louisiana that has been affected by the spill.
Al Jazeer...
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Ecuador lawmakers fail to reach water bill deal...
May 14, 2010, Reuters
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| QUITO, May 13 (Reuters) - Ecuadorean lawmakers on Thursday failed to reach a deal on suspending debate of a contested water bill that has sparked protests by indigenous groups who fear it threatens their rights to natural resources.
President Rafael Correa says the bill will better regulate the water system. But the failure by lawmakers to agree over the bill opens the way for more indigenous p...
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Indígenas vuelven a acechar Congreso de Ecuador en protesta por ley del agua...
May 06, 2010, AFP
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| QUITO - Los manifestantes indígenas desoyeron las advertencias del gobierno de izquierda de Rafael Correa y volvieron el jueves a acechar el Congreso de Ecuador en protesta por un proyecto de ley del agua del que se sienten excluidos, protagonizando nuevos enfrentamientos con la policía.
Los enfrentamientos se desataron cuando cientos de indígenas marchaban hacia el Legislativo y la Policía les...
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Native Groups Poised for Nationwide Protests Over Water Bill ...
May 06, 2010, IPS
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| QUITO, May 6 (IPS) - Indigenous organisations in Ecuador opposed to a water reform bill that they say would give mining companies and agribusiness privileged access to water have threatened to extend their protests around the country in order to keep the legislature from passing the bill without certain modifications.
This week, native demonstrators blocked traffic on highways in three province...
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Indigenous leader confronts Chevron...
Mar 12, 2010, Indian Country Today
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| Emergildo Criollo traveled to California recently from his indigenous village in Ecuador to the home of Chevron's new CEO John Watson and then to a meeting with state lawmakers, demanding that the oil giant Chevron "… take responsibility for their actions and clean up our rivers and forests – our homes."
Criollo, a leader of the Cofan people from the Oriente region of Ecuador, grew up in one of...
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Ecuador natives push Chevron for settlement...
Mar 12, 2010, San Francisco Bay Guardian
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| The Rainforest Action Network, a non-profit organization that protests the pollution and destruction of natural habitats around the world, recently gathered on a bio-diesel bus named Priscilla with Ecuadorian tribal representative Emergildo Criollo and drove to new Chevron CEO John Watson's home in Lafayette to deliver a petition demanding the company pay for the clean up of Chevron-owned Texaco's...
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Las tormentas extremas son más frecuentes ...
Mar 10, 2010, El Comercio (Ecuador)
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| El clima se vuelve cada vez más extremo y al mismo tiempo impredecible. La semana pasada, Francia fue golpeada por la tormenta Xynthia. En la historia del país no había precedente de tal calibre.
La tormenta estuvo acompañada por vientos huracanados. Además de Francia, pasó por España y Portugal. Dejó al menos 60 muertos y en el territorio francés casi un millón de personas se quedaron sin el...
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The Amazon vs. Chevron - An indigenous plea and a toxic legacy...
Mar 09, 2010, Current TV
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| Priscilla Queen of the Dessert, the bio-diesel bus, is whizzing down the freeway in the drizzle. About 20 activists in sopping fleece jackets sit inside on lumpy cushion seats that have probably carried protesters since the late 1960s. It's about 7:30 a.m. and they sip coffee, pass around dried mango slices and sign over-sized cardboard petitions that, in a few hours, will hit the desks of Chevron...
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Exposed: Chevron's Cover-up of Gross Environmental Abuses in Ecuador
Chevron claims it's not responsible for dumping 18 billion gallons of industri...
Mar 08, 2010, AlterNet
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What is a lost culture? Is it just some intangible time before? Is it an economy? Can you inventory a lost culture in the number of lives lost or rivers polluted?
Those questions haunt the lawsuit brought by Ecuadorian indigenous groups against the U.S. oil giant, Chevron, for environmental destruction it allegedly wrought as Texaco in the Amazon rainforest of eastern Ecuador. On paper, the s...
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Líder indígena pide a nuevo presidente de Chevron
reparar daños en Ecuador...
Mar 03, 2010, EFE
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| El líder indígena ecuatoriano Emergildo Criollo entregó en la sede de la petrolera estadounidense Chevron una carta firmada por 325.000 personas pidiendo al nuevo presidente que limpie los supuestos daños ambientales en la Amazonía que atribuyen a la compañía.
Criollo, miembro de la comunidad cofán, se desplazó a California para elevar su petición a la compañía, a la que acusan de haber vertido...
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