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- From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
- Subject: OILSPILL IN HIGH AMAZON
- Message-ID: <1992Aug15.191726.27399@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 19:17:26 GMT
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- /** reg.samerica: 104.0 **/
- ** Topic: ALERT 1: OILSPILL IN HIGH AMAZON **
- ** Written 9:49 am Aug 15, 1992 by hrcoord in cdp:reg.samerica **
- From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
- Subject: ALERT 1: OILSPILL IN HIGH AMAZON
-
- /* Written 1:35 am Aug 12, 1992 by cordavi in cdp:gn.tribalsurvi */
- CORPORACION DE DEFENSA DE LA VIDA
- C O R D A V I
-
- ECOLOGICAL ALERT FROM THE HIGH AMAZON:
- A NEW OIL SPILL
-
- CORDAVI, an Ecuadorian organization practicing public interest
- environmental law, reports to the world environmental community the
- following news of the oil spill that occurred in Ecuador in July
- 1992.
- The actual oil spill originated in the Sacha oil field,
- located 50 km to the south of the town of Lago Agrio, in the
- Sucumbios Province. This is part of the traditional territory of
- the Siona Secoya and Cofan native peoples. It is also the home of
- various communities of the indigenous Quichua peolple.
- This oil field was operated until last year by the U.S.
- corporation TEXACO; due to negotiations with the Ecuadorian
- government, it is now operated by Petroecuador, an Ecuadorian state
- agency. Petroecuador is folowing the legacy of Texaco, the
- petroleum giant in this Ecuador for the past 20 years. The
- responsibility for this spill lies with Texaco, whose extraction
- techniques only promote economic benefit to the company and
- disregard environmental repercussions.
- The consequences of this huge spill will be felt most acutely
- by the indigenous communities who have lost their usual sources of
- water and will now have only contaminated water.
- This spill is only one of many such spills that have occurred
- during the past two decades of oil exploitation in Ecuador, and the
- spills will continue as long as Ecuador is forced to sell its oil
- to pay back an impossible external debt.
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- C O R D A V I
- P.O.Box 17-12-309 * Quito-ECUADOR
- e-mail: root@codavi.ec
-
- ** End of text from cdp:reg.samerica **
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- /** reg.samerica: 105.0 **/
- ** Topic: ALERT 3: WHAT CAN WE DO? **
- ** Written 9:49 am Aug 15, 1992 by hrcoord in cdp:reg.samerica **
- From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
- Subject: ALERT 3: WHAT CAN WE DO?
-
- /* Written 1:38 am Aug 12, 1992 by cordavi in cdp:gn.tribalsurvi */
- CORPORACION DE DEFENSA DE LA VIDA
- C O R D A V I
-
- ECOLOGICAL ALERT FROM THE HIGH AMAZON:
-
- WHAT CAN WE DO?
-
- Almost 50 percent of the oil money taken in by the Ecuadorian
- government is used to pay its external debt. This means the
- rainforest is being destroyed, in part, to pay an unpayable and
- unjust debt. Ecological equilibrium, which is a common right of
- humanity, is being sacrificed in the EAR to satisfy the private
- interests of the World Bank and other development agencies, which
- demand that the Ecuadorian government pay high interest on the
- debt. If this situation isn't altered, damage of the EAR and other
- rainforests will continue.
- Sixto Duran Ballen, the new Ecuadorian President, who assumed
- power on August 10, says he will increase oil extraction in the
- EAR. This mean new oil spills will also increase.
- CORDAVI calls to the international environmental community and
- citizens throughout the world to support an Amazon salvation
- agenda, through the following actions:
-
- 1.- Send a letter to the Ecuadorian President, Sixto Duran Ballen
- with a copy to Ecuadorian Embassy, asking for a halt to oil
- plans in the Huaorani, Siona-Secoya, and Cofan Native
- Territories; and Yasuni National Park and Lagarto-Cocha
- Reserve, located in the Napo Rio Basin (part of the Amazon
- Basin). All are virgin rainforests and MAXUS and Petroecuador
- currently have plans to extract oil from them.
- Write to: Presidencia de la Republica: Calle Garcia
- Moreno y Espejo, Quito-ECUADOR.
-
- 2.- Write to the World Bank, demanding the following:
- a.- Declare the Ecuadorian Amazon Region on ecological
- emergency;
- b.- Reduce the Ecuadorian external debt by the amounts that
- the government expects to obtain from oil explotation in
- these areas.
- c.- During negotiations regarding debt reduction, suspend
- payment of debt interest and suspend support to oil
- activities.
-
- 3.- Write to:
- a.- TEXACO, demanding payments of compensation for its 20
- years of ecological damages in the EAR which are worse
- than damages caused by the EXXON Valdez disaster
- b.- MAXUS Corporation, demanding that they leave the Huaorani
- Native Territory and Yasuni National Park; and stop
- constructing oil roads in this area.
- Write to: Charles Blackburn, President of Maxus
- Corporation. 717 Harwood, Dallas, TX 75201. USA
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- C O R D A V I
- P.O.Box 17-12-309 * Quito-ECUADOR
- e-mail: root@codavi.ec
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