Ecopetrol contributed to education and infrastructure in La Huila while supporting cultural identity projects and environmental preservation in La Guajira. These and other stories on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in our periodic summary.
In a visit that included the Casanare governor Marco Tulio Ruíz, the royalty investment coordinator of the National Planning Department Camilo Lloreda made a visit to different projects that have been funded by royalties, and said he was left with “a very good impression”.
A study that included 105 companies in the Barrancabermeja and surrounding region found that there has been an increase in local hiring in general, with residents filling 76% of the positions in various industries.
The Meta Department government has frozen more than half of its planned spending on projects that were to be funded by royalties as it prepares for a significant decrease in royalty funds in the next years. This and other stories in our periodic roundup of royalty related issues.
Ecopetrol’s (NYSE:EC) Colombian Petroleum Institute (ICP) former employees who lost their worker contracts back in February wrote an open letter to Ecopetrol president Juan Carlos Echeverry, charging that the NOC has been violating the law by outsourcing labor.
Through the National Federation of Departments, Colombia’s governors have held an extraordinary meeting to align themselves and call on the government to release royalty funds assigned in the 2013-14 budget in their entirety.
Community buildings and common grounds were inaugurated in Pore with an investment from Parex Resources (TSE:PXT) and Geopark (NYSE:GPRK), while Ecopetrol invests in a production project and computer equipment in Castilla la Nueva. These and other stories on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in our periodic summary.
USO affiliated workers with oil services firm Weatherford (NYSE:WFT) came to an agreement ending a nearly month long strike.
The Colombian Chamber of Oil Goods and Services (Campetrol) and the Casanare Chamber of Commerce (CCC) signed an agreement as part of the new Oil & Gas Orinoquia services cluster to improve communication and cooperation.
Corrales locals speak out against deteriorating roads and authorities call on Coviandes to react to the high amount of deaths occurring on the Villavicencio-Bogotá highway. These and other stories in our periodic roundup of road-related issues.
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