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Country: Ecuador
Campaign: ConocoPhillips Oil Projects vs. Indigenous Communities in the Amazon

Shuar and Achuar Letter to ConocoPhillips CEO James Mulva: ...
Sep 15, 2006,
Mr. James Mulva President CONOCO-PHILLIPS Dear Mr. Mulva The Interfederation Committee of the Shuar and Achuar Indigenous nations of Ecuador, assembled in the city of Quito today, has decided to address this letter to you in order to express once more our rejection to oil extraction activities in our territory. We have been sustaining this position since we learned that the Ecuadorian... Full Story

Amazon Watch May 9, 2006 Letter to ConocoPhillips CEO...
May 10, 2006,
Mr. J.J. Mulva Chief Executive Officer ConocoPhillips 600 North Dairy Ashford Houston, TX 77252-2197 Dear J.J. Mulva: Amazon Watch is pleased about ConocoPhillips’ commitment to health, safety and the environment (HSE). We are encouraged that through the implementation of your HSE policy, ConocoPhillips “seeks to earn the public's trust and to be recognized as the leader in HSE per... Full Story

Declaration in Opposition to Oil Extraction From the Indigenous Peoples of the Central-Southern Ecuadorian Amazon ...
May 04, 2006,
Issued by: Inter-Provincial Federation of the Shuar People of Ecuador, FICSH Independent Federation of the Shuar People of Ecuador, FIPSE Nacional Achuar Federation of Ecuador, NAE Organization of the Original Kichwa People from Sarayaku, TAYJA SARUTA-SARAYAKU, RUKULLACTA Cooperative Puyo, Ecuador The people and nationalities of the Central-Southern region of the Ecuadorian Amazon woul... Full Story

CONOCOPHILLIPS BUYS BURLINGTON RESOURCES...
Mar 31, 2006,
On December 13, 2005, ConocoPhillips, the third largest U.S. oil and gas company agreed to acquire Burlington Resources in a $35.6 billion deal. The deal which was approved by Burllington’s board of directors on March 30 2006, makes ConocoPhillips one of the largest holders of North American natural gas reserves, but drags the company into some of most controversial oil projects in the Amazon tod... Full Story

Amazon Watch letter to ConocoPhillips -- Amazon Watch Calls on ConocoPhillips to Reconsider Burlington's Risky Holdings in Ecuador and Peru...
Dec 14, 2005,
James J. Mulva Chairman and Chief Executive Officer ConocoPhillips 600 North Dairy Ashford (77079-1175) P.O. Box 2197 Houston, TX 77252-2197 Fax: 281.293.5555 Dear Mr. Mulva – Upon news of ConocoPhillips’ agreement to acquire Burlington Resources, we are writing to inform your company of several controversial issues that have plagued Burlington in their South American operations. We a... Full Story

Sarayaku Update: Hearing before Inter-American Human Rights Court ratifies Sarayaku's arguments ...
May 12, 2005,
Asunción, Paraguay-- On May 11, 2005 Dr. José María Borja, Ecuador’s Attorney General, announced before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of the Organization of American States (OAS) his proposal to maintain the human rights protection measures in favor of the Sarayaku indigenous people. He also plans to reach an agreement between the state and the community regarding specific points withi... Full Story

Message from the Shuar People of the Ecuadorian Amazon to Burlington Resources at its Annual General Meeting of Investors...
Apr 21, 2004,
“We ask for the immediate departure of all oil companies from the territories of the Shuar, Achuar and Quichuas peoples. We Shuar are an ancient people who continue to live in our territory according to our customs and our own cosmovision. We have our rainforest that holds our cultural patrimony—the waterfalls, the forest’s richness, the medicinal plants and wisdom, the rivers, flora, fauna and... Full Story

Indigenous Leaders Bring Message to U.S., Gain International Attention ...
Jun 01, 2003,
From the Pachamama Office in Ecuador: In early May, leaders from the Achuar, Shuar, and Zápara peoples arrived at the international headquarters of Burlington Resources to manifest their unified opposition to the multi-national oil company’s operations in ancestral indigenous territories. Burlington Resources is the owner of the oil concession known as Block 24, and is rumored to be in the pr... Full Story

Letter from Shuar and Achuar peoples to the CEO of Burlington Resources ...
May 14, 2003,
FIPSE FICSH FINAE Pueblos Indigenas de Ecuador c/o Centro de Derechos Economicos y Sociales P.O. Box 17-07-8808 Quito Ecuador Tel: 593 7 700 931 Fax: 593 22 563 517 Bobby Shackouls CEO Burlington Resources, Inc 5051 Westheimer Houston, Texas May 14, 2003 Dear Mr. Shackouls: The purpose of this communication is to clarify the official positi... Full Story

Burlington Response to NGO Letter...
Aug 27, 2002,
See letter (pdf 89k)... Full Story

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