The general manager of EAAV, the sewage and aqueduct company of Villavicencio Hector Castro says that seismic exploration near the aqueduct’s intake has the potential to collapse the infrastructure.
A Casanare land owner is accusing Lewis Energy Colombia of working outside the bounds of its environmental license, which she says has affected a local river and flooded her land, and that the company has also been under reporting its production, while one report suggests the dispute is about compensation for production rights on her land.
Senator Maritza Martínez criticized the government’s failure to address land right issues in the Llanos and sounded off on environmental issues, many of which she says stem from mining and hydrocarbons production. Tauramena should be seen as a wake up call for the government and environmental authorities, she argues.
The government engaged a multi-pronged push back against a public referendum that looks to reject oil production near municipal water sources in Tauramena, Casanare which included ministers and Ecopetrol’s (NYSE:EC) president Javier Gutiérrez.
Nearly two months after it was first detected, the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development and the National Environmental Licensing Authority (ANLA) have declared an environmental emergency at the Cartagena location of Carman International due to oil leakage.
Only a day after Ecopetrol and Talisman announced a major discovery in CPO-9, comes this story about complaints of odors in another part of the municipality of Acacias, Meta.
An environmentalist group (La Mesa Hídríca del Piedemonte) which focuses on water issues in the Meta Department, has gathered and submitted 20,000 signatures rejecting oil production work in the nearby Lorito 1 well, in the Guamal municipality.
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.
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.
A chain of events set off by a truck loaded with 230 barrels of crude crashing on a Putumayo highway which led then to a spill which reached the Magdalena river, has moved local authorities to ban a number of transport companies from operating and heavy trucks from using their normal routes in Huila.
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