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The Ecuadorian Amazon is not for Sale
Carlita S.
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If enough people sign this petition, we the rest of the world can stop this madness. Don’t expect the rest of us not to put up a strong resistance. This is the last of the Ecuadorian Amazon, but we will not give up until the last of us has fought to save , Dr Wilson Rojos (Convention on Biological Diversity Co-Ordinator), President Rafael Correa, Mr Daniel V. Ortego Pacheco, Director General de Medio Ambiente, Dr Angel Onofa Guayasamin, Subsecretaria de Capital Natural, Nacional de Biodiversidad, Ecuador.
A year ago on the 8th of August 2012, The Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa made a deal with The Ministry of Hydrocarbons and PetroPerú Ecuador and signed an agreement to sell 15 blocks of oil reserves under over seventy hundred thousand hectares of primary rainforest, threatening the livelihood of 7 indigenous tribes and the ancestral lands of the Kichwa, Sapara, Shuar, Waorani, Achuar, and Shiwiar Andoas.
The government have opened bids on the ‘Oil Blocks’ in a move to “promote to and facilitate the transport of oil” on November 28, 2012 for interested oil companies, the bidding round will last until May 30, 2013 for international oil companies to purchase blocks 70, 71, 72, 73, 77, 22, 29, 79, 83, 84, 87, 80 and 81, (see map https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/D23voQ_tOTF0PD82gYJz6zkudgpaL8cs3qSn93BC2e4?feat=directlink ). These blocks will operate through the formation of a consortium with Ecuador’s state.
This decision will turn the Ecuadorian Amazon into the largest operating oil fields in the whole of the Amazon rainforest that stretches from Ecuador to Colombia, Boliva, Peru and Brazil, destroying tropical rainforest biodiversity, in addition to the livelihood and ancestral territories of hundreds of thousands of indigenous tribes, bringing the largest threat of population displacement and decimation Ecuador has seen since 40 years ago when the country was invaded by Peru, now it attempts to keep corporate peace by selling out the rainforest. Other repercussions will be diseases amongst the indigenous such as cancer linked to irreversible environmental pollution, it seems that the Ecuadorian government has learned nothing from the historic Chevron and Texaco case, where international oil companies lack the ability to maintain standard safe drilling measures because they are not operating in their own countries.
There will be more careless drilling disasters and oil spills, the heartless destruction of seventy five hundred thousand hectares of primary Amazon rainforest obliterated forever starting now. In the short term what does this large scale destruction of Ecuador’s last rainforest mean for the indigenous population, the end of peace perhaps ?
We will see a rise in military occupation of the Amazon, soldiers will be invading indigenous territories, violently displacing indigenous communities from their ancestral land. An oil pipeline will be built from Peru to Ecuador bringing in large roads and apocalyptic destruction to the primary rainforest and it’s precious biodiversity.
The oil will be transported through the pipeline connecting to the Peruvian border, the “Nor-Peruvian Pipeline” proposed for block 86, the remote Shiwiar territory that I visited.
President Correa will turn Northern Ecuador into a civil war zone in 12 months. To do such a thing can only expect bloodshed of the worst kind by displacing hundreds of thousands of people, there will be a fight against this injustice pressed upon this nation of indigenous people, this not only affects the 7 indigenous tribal groups in the areas of the oil blocks, the Achuar, Shuar and Kichwa de Sarayaku that will have their livelihoods affected also.
President Correa, you once said you held a responsibility for the world to protect the Ecuadorian Rainforest, for money, you easily forget your responsibility to the planet and humanity.
The government have opened bids on the ‘Oil Blocks’ in a move to “promote to and facilitate the transport of oil” on November 28, 2012 for interested oil companies, the bidding round will last until May 30, 2013 for international oil companies to purchase blocks 70, 71, 72, 73, 77, 22, 29, 79, 83, 84, 87, 80 and 81, (see map https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/D23voQ_tOTF0PD82gYJz6zkudgpaL8cs3qSn93BC2e4?feat=directlink ). These blocks will operate through the formation of a consortium with Ecuador’s state.
This decision will turn the Ecuadorian Amazon into the largest operating oil fields in the whole of the Amazon rainforest that stretches from Ecuador to Colombia, Boliva, Peru and Brazil, destroying tropical rainforest biodiversity, in addition to the livelihood and ancestral territories of hundreds of thousands of indigenous tribes, bringing the largest threat of population displacement and decimation Ecuador has seen since 40 years ago when the country was invaded by Peru, now it attempts to keep corporate peace by selling out the rainforest. Other repercussions will be diseases amongst the indigenous such as cancer linked to irreversible environmental pollution, it seems that the Ecuadorian government has learned nothing from the historic Chevron and Texaco case, where international oil companies lack the ability to maintain standard safe drilling measures because they are not operating in their own countries.
There will be more careless drilling disasters and oil spills, the heartless destruction of seventy five hundred thousand hectares of primary Amazon rainforest obliterated forever starting now. In the short term what does this large scale destruction of Ecuador’s last rainforest mean for the indigenous population, the end of peace perhaps ?
We will see a rise in military occupation of the Amazon, soldiers will be invading indigenous territories, violently displacing indigenous communities from their ancestral land. An oil pipeline will be built from Peru to Ecuador bringing in large roads and apocalyptic destruction to the primary rainforest and it’s precious biodiversity.
The oil will be transported through the pipeline connecting to the Peruvian border, the “Nor-Peruvian Pipeline” proposed for block 86, the remote Shiwiar territory that I visited.
President Correa will turn Northern Ecuador into a civil war zone in 12 months. To do such a thing can only expect bloodshed of the worst kind by displacing hundreds of thousands of people, there will be a fight against this injustice pressed upon this nation of indigenous people, this not only affects the 7 indigenous tribal groups in the areas of the oil blocks, the Achuar, Shuar and Kichwa de Sarayaku that will have their livelihoods affected also.
President Correa, you once said you held a responsibility for the world to protect the Ecuadorian Rainforest, for money, you easily forget your responsibility to the planet and humanity.
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