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Ecuador: Permit Issued for Drilling in Amazon Reserve

2014-05-23 04:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Associated Press: Ecuadors government has issued an environmental permit for oil drilling in a pristine Amazon reserve that President Rafael Correa initially offered to exempt from exploration if rich countries would pay his government. Mr. Correa abandoned that effort last year because of insufficient interest and has spurned pleas by environmentalists to spare the Yasuni reserve. This month, Ecuadors electoral council declared invalid a petition seeking to prevent drilling in the 6,500-square-mile Amazon reserve....

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