Oil Showdown in the Amazon
[Action Alert] • There is one area of the Ecuadorian Amazon that is so pristine that the whole ecosystem has been preserved and even jaguars roam free! But the government is now threatening to go in and drill for oil.
Ecuador’s Sani Isla Kichwa people have asked for our help to stop the government turning their forest home into an oil field. A massive scandal in the global media challenging President Correa to act on his environmental principles could persuade him to pull back and stop the Amazon oil rush.
The local indigenous people have been resisting, but they are afraid that oil companies will break up the community with bribes. When they heard that people across the world might stand with them and make a stink to save their land, they were thrilled. The president of Ecuador claims to stand for indigenous rights and the environment, but he has just come up with a new plan to bring oil speculators in to 4 million hectares of jungle. If we can say 'wait a minute, you're supposed to be the green president who says no one can buy Ecuador', we could expose him for turning his back on his commitments just as he is fighting for re-election.
He doesn't want a PR nightmare right now. If we get a million of us to help this one community defend their ancestral land and challenge the president openly to keep to his word, we could start a media storm that would make him reconsider the whole plan.
Sign the petition now and tell everyone -- let's help save this beautiful forest.
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Chevron-Texaco or Chevron Toxico, head office California USA is responsible for Ecuador's toxic catastrophe. February 2011 they were found guilty in court in Lago Agrio, ordered to pay $18 billion clean up of their environmental pollution and which result (these charmers) are appealing, and denying that 18.5 billion gallons of toxic waste can harm people. Extraordinary rhetoric with no intention to act.
When americans first place responsibility on their OWN country's despoilers of foreign lands and demand first, their restoration of INDIGENOUS land restructuring, they may then have an opportunity to accuse others of something worse than acceptable but not before. Sting and co have the facts which seem to be missing in this uninformed article but the mainstream press rarely give out the truth. Do some digging where it counts.
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