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This is how the the National Environmental Licensing Agency (ANLA) is planning to improve its scope of action in rural areas.

The Colombian Association of Petroleum Engineers (ACIPET) is implementing a communication strategy for the oil sector and its projects around the country. The association gave details on the number of information workshops held this year.

Technical groups of the National Environmental Licensing Agency (ANLA) developed an environmental monitoring process for different industry projects. Here are the details.

Inhabitants of the Mercaderes municipality (Cauca) arranged a popular consultation themselves, to decide on the future of the industry in their territories.

Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) activated its contingency plan in the municipality of Cubará (Boyacá), after receiving reports of an oil spill in a local water source. The development of these and more stories in our periodic Eco summary.

The entity spoke about how the industry’s investment of not less than 1% benefited environmental projects in Casanare.

The possibility of implementing unconventional techniques such as fracking has generated much discussion and speculation in the country. Rodrigo Suarez, Director of the National Environmental Licensing Agency (ANLA), spoke on this subject and rumors about possible licensing procedures to allow this technique.

Geologists from Virginia Tech University (VT) spoke about the relationship between the injection of produced water in some territories, and earthquakes.

The director of the National Environmental Licensing Agency (ANLA), Rodrigo Suárez, spoke about the entity’s new tool to monitor projects in the territories.

The National Environmental Licensing Agency (ANLA) spoke about its Resumé Bank; an initiative to assure that only the best professionals will represent the entity in the territories.