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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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