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Petition to halt oil exploration in Ecuadorean Amazon gets 1m signatures
2013-02-06 15:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A global campaign to stop oil exploration in a pristine corner of the Ecuadorean Amazon has collected more than a million online signatures in little more than a week. The show of support is a major boost to the small indigenous community of Sani Isla that has been resisting intrusions by Ecuador's state-run oil company Petroamazonas. It is also a rebuke to Ecuador's president, Rafael Correa, as he campaigns for re-election. The petition, which was organised by the campaign group Avaaz, calls...
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White House Petitions Now Need 100,000 Signatures for Formal Response
2013-01-16 23:37:13| PC Magazine Software Product Guide
The White House on Tuesday announced that it will now require at least 100,000 signatures on petitions submitted to the administration in order to trigger a White House response - up from 25,000.
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