The municipality of San Onofre has been through five mayors in the last year and a half, not to mention more than COL$ 5.5bn (US$ 2.9mn) in royalties from the Caño Limon pipeline which passes nearby.
A city council member of the Trinidad municipality will hold a meeting on May 31 to evaluate claims of environmental damage and noncompliance with social investments area communities have made against oil producers operating in the region.
The USO said that it has received more death threats last week directed towards union leaders in the Magdalena Medio region in a letter it says is signed by the Paramilitary group Los Rastrojos.
Ecopetrol and community leaders of municipalities surrounding the Cupiagua oil field have signed an agreement establishing the oil producer’s commitments with the local community.
Blockades have become the number one security issue for many companies, ahead of attacks by the Farc or ELN. Although blocking roads is illegal, the government is uncomfortable sending troops against private citizens apparently exercising their democratic rights. Worse for the companies, many of the issues being protested apparently have nothing to do with them.
The USO said last week their leadership made a trip to Canada in order to make ties with Canadian organizations and law makers that can assist the union organize against the Canadian firm Pacific Rubiales. The organization said it met with members of Canada’s Green Party and New Democratic Party, as well as with union delegates of the ACEP.
There is still no community-Ecopetrol agreement over the Cupiagua oil field, where 14 villages within the influence of the drilling are at loggerheads with the company over the distribution of local hiring percentages for the project and the management of investment funds.
The Bicentenary Pipeline says it has not only delivered on obligations to improve and maintain roads used for the project’s construction, it went on to improve rural roads of communities affected by the pipeline’s installation that were not required by law.
Criticism stemming from a press report last week that Oleoductos de los Llanos Orientales (ODL) had allegedly sought to advance the Araguaney Carmentea pipeline project behind closed doors and without community participation prompted the company to respond to Prensa Libre Casanare.
The Center for Analysis and Public Affairs (CAAP) has presented its first ranking of how well departments are managing royalties –whether direct, indirect, regional compensation, or for science/innovation- as a tool for the public debate surrounding the use of these funds.
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