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Ecuador, Alcatel-Lucent sign 4G network deal
2013-09-12 02:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
State-owned telco CNT aims to offer services from December.
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Why Ecuador Abandoned Plans to Leave Fossil Fuels in the Ground and Save the Amazon
2013-09-06 22:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: On Aug. 15, Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa announced his governments abandonment of the Yasuni-ITT Initiative, the innovative attempt to reverse the economic arrangement of oil extraction in the Amazon by keeping the oil in the soil in exchange for international assistance. His words that evening were disheartening to many. They encroached on the hopes of environmentalists and indigenous rights activists in Ecuador and progressives around the world. Correa had announced on Ecuadorian state...
Ecuador: Yasuni could still be spared oil drilling
2013-08-26 18:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: When Ecuadorean President, Rafael Correa, announced on August 15th that he was abandoning an innovative program to spare three blocs of Yasuni National Park from oil drilling, it seemed like the world had tossed away its most biodiverse ecosystem. However, environmental groups and activists quickly responded that there may be another way to keep oil companies out of Yasuni's Ishpingo-Tambococha-Tiputini (ITT) blocs: a national referendum. When officially proposed in 2007, the Yasuni-ITT program...
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Ecuador Scraps Plan to Block Rain Forest Oil Drilling
2013-08-19 22:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: The decision by Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa to abandon a plan to spare the species-rich Yasun rain forest in eastern Ecuador from oil development has dashed hopes for what environmentalists had hailed as a historic approach to weaning industrial society from its dependence on fossil fuels. "Ecuador and the world have lost an opportunity to shape a revolutionary initiative," said Alberto Acosta, Ecuador's former minister of energy and mines, and one of the chief architects of the so-called...
Ecuador sparks outcry over plan to drill in rainforest
2013-08-18 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wall Street Journal: Environmental groups here and indigenous lawmakers threatened over the weekend to take Ecuador's government to international court over a plan to drill for oil in a protected part of the Amazon rainforest. Late last week, President Rafael Correa said the government was abandoning a plan it announced six years ago to refrain from drilling for oil in the rainforest area if the world came up with $3.6 billion to offset some of the foregone benefits of the oil money. The leftist president said just...
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