The 2014-2018 collective bargaining agreement took 40 days of formal negotiation and 15 days to write, and has not yet been in effect for around two weeks, but already conflicts are brewing between Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) and its largest union the USO.
The 28th round of talks finished at the end of last week, while a national forum for victims included commentary from Colombians displaced by the conflict and living around the world.
Readers will have noticed a number of articles this week and last week on fracking. We decided to keep track of the number of articles we have found and whether they are positive or negative.
The Minister of Environment Gabriel Vallejo gave one of his longest interviews yet, defended the government’s plan to allow fracking, and countered critics that questioned his environmental credentials in the ministerial role.
President Juan Manuel Santos has announced a series of changes to the approval process for environmental licenses that he says will cut the wait time down to five months but still ensure that the environment is protected.
Nearly four years after announcing the discovery, Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) has received the environmental license it needs to start more drilling at its Mago-1 well location near Puerto Gaitan, Meta.