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ABB Reduces Downtime for Ecuador's State Oil Company
2015-09-14 12:31:15| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Petroamazonas EP turns to ABBs Emax 2 technology to protect generators from sudden surges - and avoid time-consuming and costly shutdowns Zurich, Switzerland, - ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, is supplying an integrated intelligent energy management solution to Petroamazonas EP, Ecuadors...
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Ecuador's looking for a few good extras
2014-06-01 13:04:08| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Several dozen demonstrators gathered outside the Permian Basin Petroleum Museum in Midland to condemn Chevron, which held its annual meeting on Wednesday at the historic site in the west Texas oil patch.
Oil Vote Deadline Looms for Ecuadors Yasuní National Park
2014-04-08 19:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: In 2007, for the meager sum of US$3.6 billion, Ecuadors President Rafael Correa offered the world a chance to buy into a conservation plan, called the Yasuní-ITT Initiative, to save his countrys easternmost sector from oil extraction. The ITT concession area, named for three sites within its boundaries Ishpingo, Tambococha and Tiputini makes up about 1/12th of the Yasuní Biosphere Reserve. It represents an opportunity to conserve up to 10 percent of all species on the planet. This Initiative...
Ecuador's development dilemma: Will oil win out?
2014-02-22 05:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: Standing before the United Nations General Assembly in 2007, Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa offered the international community a way to make a significant impact on climate change: Donate $3.6 billion to the economy of Ecuador by 2019, and the country would refrain from drilling for oil in its Yasuní National Park, one of the most biologically diverse tracts of Amazon rainforest. The initiative would prevent the total release of about 400 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere ...
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Ecuador's government shuts down indigenous rights organization over oil battle
2013-12-10 17:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Last Wednesday, the government of Ecuador shutdown the indigenous rights NGO, Fundación Pachamama, in Quito over the group's opposition to oil drilling in indigenous areas. More than a dozen government officials showed up at Pachamama's office with a resolution by the Ministry of Environment that officially dissolved the organization, the first such moved by the government which in June passed an Executive Decree that tightened governmental oversight of the country's NGOs. The Ecuadorean government,...
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