A forum organized by social activist Ólder Alexis Cáceres on conflict and policies on natural resources claims hydrocarbons reform to protect natural resources is a must for lasting peace. Resources must be protected from profit-driven private industry, activists argue.
Senator Maritza Martínez said during a senate debate that the environmental and social damage caused by exploration and production in Arauca, Casanare and Meta are a cause of concern and create the need for public referendums like the one scheduled in Tauramena, Casanare.
This week the discussion of the illegal drug trade, the third agenda point in the roundtable in Havana got off to the start, with the Farc arguing that the problem is not the coca crops, it’s the cocaine trade.
The Colombian Association of Truckers has staged a blockade in Casanare, demanding that Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) and Pacific Rubiales (TSX:PRE) favor local truckers over regional or foreign providers and pay a standby fee for waits incurred prior to loading.
Casanare has become the eighth department to receive a special investigative unit, called the Structure of Support (EDA), which will focus on criminal cases involving the oil industry and its infrastructure.
Javier Gutiérrez, president of Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) made a visit to the municipality in San Antero and told local press that the Bicentennial Pipeline (OBC) will be online in December, the latest change in the start of its operations, mainly due to security threats.
The commander of a local military unit, Cornol Juvenal Díaz says the 48th Front of the Farc is responsible for repeated attacks that have caused a significant amount of oil to be spilled into the ecosystem.
Hydrocarbons Colombia organized a debate on environmental management in the hydrocarbons industry between two Colombian heavyweights: environmentalist Juan Pablo Ruiz Soto (the only Colombian to have climbed Mount Everest) and Jose Francisco Arata, president of Colombia’s largest entirely shareholder-owned oil company, Pacific Rubiales.
The Ministry of Mines and Energy (MinMinas) has presented its formula to lower fuel costs at the pump and also believes that the modernization of national refineries could also contribute to a lower price in the midterm.
The municipality of Monterrey has presented a socialization of the Odisea 3D seismic exploration project and its environmental impact to the municipal council so that council members can issue a statement regarding the project and possible bring it to a public referendum.
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