Five Casanare mayors spoke out against seismic testing Ecopetrol has planned for its Odisea 3D project in Casanare, alleging the testing is performed without adequate control and affects water sources and the environment in general.
We picked up a story a few weeks ago that dead chigüiros had been found in an open tank at a Casanare installation belonging to Parex. A chigüiro is a rodent about the size of a dog or a small pig, indigenous to Colombia’s Llanos. We spoke to Parex to get their side of the story.
Colombia’s Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development (MinAmbiente) responded to the doubts of President Juan Manuel Santos on environmental licensing and the management of the Autonomous Regional Corporation (CAR) in an accountability session and published a summary of its message on its webpage.
The Bicentennial Pipeline (OBC) will alter the route of the second phase of the project in search of better security conditions, as well as considering geographical, environmental and logical issues.
Colombian senator Martiza Martínez introduced a legislative bill that would establish a law requiring that seismic exploration for oil reserves first receive an environmental license to move forward.
Ecopetrol will hold environmental workshops with communities that fall in the area of influence of the ODISEA 3D seismic exploration project and the company insists that there are no environmental consequences as a result of the exploration.
Poor visibility appears to be the cause of a tanker-trucker accident that led to a spill of crude near the banks of the Cusiana River. GeoPark, the producer who extracted the crude, says it had no responsibility in the matter but has acted to mitigate any environmental damage or impact.
Pacific Rubiales has come across the remains of an indigenous group that date back 700 years in what now is an exploratory block.
Pacific Rubiales CEO Ronald Pantin says that recent changes to simplify environmental licenses will improve its timelines for the environmental permit process in Colombia, which in the short term will lead to approval of a license to operate the CPE-6 block in the Llanos basin.
An international study found that despite Colombia’s status as the country with the second most biodiversity in the world, it is among the 40 countries that do the least to protect this rich variety.
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