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According to inhabitants of San Luis de Gaseno (Boyacá), having their water sources polluted by oil activities became ‘normal’ during the past three years.

The firm explained the reasons why it had to activate its contingency plan in Puerto Boyacá, once again. The development of these and more stories in our periodic Eco summary.

Communities in Putumayo accused Amerisur Resources (LON: AMER) and Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) of polluting their water sources. The development of these and more stories in our periodic Eco summary.

ValueSkies will produce renewable fuel and diesel in Cali. Here are the details.

The Colombian government, through the National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH), wants to promote new oil projects around Colombia. The ANH is analyzing new exploration areas and this created a controversy due to the possible interest in developing oil activities in the Galilea Forest. The ANH ruled on this issue.

On February 14, 2019 the Commission of Experts gave its report on the adoption of fracking / unconventional technologies for Colombian exploration and production. We have written several articles on the content. Here we talk about the press reaction.

We attended the presentation by the Commission of Experts engaged to give recommendations on fracking. The next day, we published a summary of the recommendations, last Monday we explored those in some depth and today we go back to fill in some of the details.

The Northeastern Regional Border Autonomous Corporation (Corponor) spoke about the effects that the ELN’s most recent attack had on the Catatumbo River (Norte de Santander). The development of these and more stories in our periodic Eco summary.

Last week we wrote a very high-level summary of the Commission of Expert’s recommendations on fracking. This week we go one level deeper and look at the recommendations in detail. Next week will publish our summary of the commission’s findings and conclusions.

The long-awaited report of the commission of experts was presented to the public Thursday afternoon. We attended. The study concluded there was much opportunity but much uncertainty so the country should run a pilot. Which is what Ecopetrol had proposed last year.