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Ecuador Congress Approves Yasuni Basin Oil Drilling in Amazon
2013-10-09 18:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Ecuador's parliament on Thursday authorized drilling of the nation's largest oil fields in part of the Amazon rainforest after the failure of President Rafael Correa's plan to have rich nations pay to avoid its exploitation. The socialist leader launched the initiative in 2007 to protect the Yasuni jungle area, which boasts some of the planet's most diverse wildlife, but scrapped it after attracting only a small fraction of the $3.6 billion sought. The government-dominated National Assembly authorized...
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Russia charges non-violent activists with 'piracy' for protesting Arctic oil drilling
2013-10-07 15:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: In what is being described by Greenpeace as an 'imaginary offense,' Russia has charged 30 people with piracy after activists protested against oil exploitation in the Arctic. The 30 charged included not only protestors, but a British journalist and Russian videographer who were on board Greenpeace's ship, the Arctic Sunrise, when it was stormed by the Russian military late last month. On Wednesday, September 18th, two of activists were arrested attempting to scale Russia first Arctic oil platform,...
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US national parks hit by shutdown still open for drilling
2013-10-04 15:35:56| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: The image is tailor-made to stoke fury over the shuttered government: drillers pulling oil and gas from beneath national parkland that citizens are barred from entering. But what greens decry as painful fallout from this week's shutdown is happening on a smaller scale than some have argued. Interviews with state regulators, environmentalists and local elected officials suggest that while oil and gas operations continue at Texas and Florida park sites closed to visitors this week, drilling appears...
Houston American Energy Updates Drilling Plans
2013-10-04 15:30:00| OGI
Houston American has budgeted $700,000 for these prospects to be funded from its existing working capital.
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What is the impact of Arctic drilling?
2013-10-02 13:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Russia today charged Greenpeace activists with piracy for their protest action on a Gazprom oil rig in the Arctic Circle. Russia's police action and the potential for draconian punishments (piracy carries a maximum sentence of 15 years in Russia) is "the most serious threat to Greenpeace's peaceful environmental activism" since the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, according to Greenpeace executive director, Kumi Naidoo. Apart from Greenpeace's right to protest, what is at stake in the Arctic? And...
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