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Ecuador's President Abandons No-Drilling Plan, Approves Oil Exploration In Amazon
2013-08-16 08:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fox: President Rafael Correa has given the all clear for rich countries to begin drilling for oil in Ecuador's Amazon rainforest on Thursday, abandoning an ambitious 2007 plan he proposed to stop oil exploration in a pristine preserve. Correa had sought $3.6 billion in contributions to maintain a moratorium on drilling in the remote Yasuni National Park, which was declared a biosphere reserve by the United Nations in 1989 and is home to two Indian tribes living in voluntary isolation. Environmentalist...
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Ecuador's Transmission Grid Operators Upgrade Network Management Software
2013-05-23 17:43:00| Transmission & Distribution World
Ventyx, an ABB company, has signed deals valued at $6.5 million with the primary state-based organizations responsible for operating Ecuador's transmission grid. read more
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Ecuadors president vows to push large-scale mining despite indigenous protest
2013-02-24 15:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Ecuador`s re-elected President Rafael Correa said Saturday he will push large-scale mining projects during his next four years in office, despite opposition from some indigenous groups. "The Ecuadoran people have voted to responsibly take advantage of non-renewable resources," said in a weekly address on his administration`s activities. Correa, a socialist, said his goal was to use the country`s mining and oil wealth to eliminate poverty and said he was committed to "the Amazonian people and...
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Ecuadors new $700m Quito International Airport begins operations
2013-02-22 01:00:00| Airport Technology
Corporacin Quiport has opened the new $700m Mariscal Sucre International Airport in Quito, Ecuador.
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Ecuador's disappearing glaciers
2013-01-13 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Latinamerica Press.: Ecuador has lost 30 percent of its snowcaps in the last three decades, and if global warming continues at this rate, in 70 years they will disappear completely. This is what points out the Project for Adaptation to the Impact of Receding Glaciers in the Tropical Andes, or PRAA, of the Andean Community. Climate change is causing dramatic impact to glaciers at the global level, affirmed the PRAA. Temperature variations in the Andes will reduce ice coverage and alter glacial runoff, eventually...
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