Over the past 30 years, the three companies that have managed Block 10, an oil extraction site in the Ecuadorian Amazon, have sought to divide local communities and increase their reliance on their corporations. However, Indigenous leaders and organizations are actively pushing back against these efforts.
Tag: Pastaza
Lot 192: A Chronicle from an airport wrapped in dreams
The only thing that lands at the airport of Andoas, since 10 days, are the dreams of the elderly, young people, mothers, fathers, finally, hundreds of Quechua people from Pastaza region, who have regained the territory seized by the state and the oil companies.
Ministry of Environment declares emergency in Rio Pastaza by oil spill
The government declared an emergency after confirming that many cases of environmental pollution in the region were not restored promptly by Pluspetrol and other oil companies.
Loreto: environmental emergency declared in Pastaza basin due to oil pollution
The government declared a state of environmental emergency by the high concentration of physical, chemical and microbiological parameters.