Last fall, thousands of Amazon Watch supporters signed a petition demanding the protection of Ecuador’s last Indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation in Yasuní National Park. And now we have excellent news to share! Our […]
Rivers running black through the waters of the Amazon; dying animals covered in petroleum; children whose heads and bodies ache from exposure to oil; explosives buried and forgotten in Indigenous territories. The Amazon jungle — the world’s largest rainforest […]
Ecuador’s top electoral court has opened up a route for a referendum to ban oil drilling in the Yasuni National Park, an environmental group said on Wednesday, a move which could disrupt government plans to […]
Ecuador could be forced to suspend all oil production within 48 hours as anti-government protests in the country intensify, the Ecuadorian energy ministry warned. The production suspension was to be “due to the acts of […]
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Country Analysis Brief: Brazil Brazil was the only oil-producing country in South America to report an increase in crude oil and condensate production in 2020 compared with 2019, according to our Country Analysis […]
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, International Energy Statistics and July 2021 Short-Term Energy Outlook In 2020, Ecuador produced 483,000 barrels per day (b/d) of petroleum and petroleum liquids, which is the only year since 2010 that petroleum […]
Ecuadorean state-owned oil company Petroecuador declared Wednesday ‘force majeure’ on all crude oil trading operations and other contractual obligations that the firm maintains due to ongoing protests against Lenin Moreno’s government across the country. ‘Force […]
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