The Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development (MinAmbiente), Luz Helen Sarmiento held her first meeting with the general directors of the regional autonomous environmental authorities, or CARS, to discuss the work agenda between the regional entities and the central government.
Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) partnered with the environmental organization, The Humboldt Institute, for a study of the biodiversity found in 26 million hectares, analyzing 2000 different species, in areas where the NOC is operating.
The Bicentennial Pipeline (OBC), along with military personnel, civil authorities, Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) delegates and aid organizations simulated an oil spill in order to identify readiness in the case of an actual emergency.
A company called Carman Internacional is allegedly responsible for an oil leak that contaminated the Cartagena Bay with at least 5,000 liters of crude from a makeshift oil storage pools. Ecopetrol (NYSE: EC) has intervened to clean up the mess.
Nubia Orozco Acosta has been sworn in to run the National Environmental Licensing Authority after its former director Luz Helena Sarmiento took the Environmental Minister’s role earlier this month.
Raven Pipeline Colombia, which operates small diameter pipelines, says it has advanced in socialization of its environmental plan, part of the process to obtain a license for its first Project in Colombia in the Paz de Ariporo municipality.
New technologies, off shore drilling and unconventional reserves must be actively harnessed and explored if Colombia is to maintain its oil production above a million barrels a day says Germán Arce, president of the National Hydrocarbons Agency ANH.
Luz Elena Sarmiento just got a promotion, moving from director of the National Environmental Licensing Agency (ANLA) to Colombia’s environmental minister. Here is a look at her past spent as an environmental specialist and community relations representative to the sector’s greatest powers.
In Yopal a tanker-truck spilled raw crude while leaving the municipality and the spill reaction team took hours to respond. Instead local firefighters and a team from the Bicentennial Pipeline (OBC) has to intervene to clean up the mess.
Ecopetrol (NYSE: EC) started the second phase of the socialization process for its Odisea 3D seismic exploration project, holding meetings and environmental workshops in three villages in Casanare. Its seismic exploration in the area has come under fire and been blamed in local press for causing damage to the environment, in particular to rivers.
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