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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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