The USO claims 9,000 people attended a rally last week in Meta to denounce abuses to workers and the community by oil and gas companies. As we have described recently, the USO is tapping into a current of popular discontent in the department, caused principally by changes in the royalty distribution scheme.
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Counts were up significantly to 41 considerably above recent and long-term averages. This was an average week for non-Armed Forces i.e. guerrilla-initiated events which means both guerrilla and Armed Forces activities were up. Our 4-week Moving Average incident count was up to 34.5 incidents and the 52 week average was up to 37.5 incidents per week.
The Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development has developed a quick, free, online tool for assessing whether a project is, or is not likely to run into problems with the National Environmental Licensing Agency. We have tried it out and provide our comments after the first translated article.
There is a new Deputy Director of the section of the National Environmental Licensing Agency that is responsible for the technical parts of permitting. This puts her at the heart of the difficult balancing job. From an ANLA press release, translated and with commentary by Hydrocarbons Colombia.
The eighth round of peace talks ended last week in Havana. Representatives of the government and the FARC issued a joint statement that outlined the progress of the process. The official statement highlighted progress but, as usual, the un-official communications undo what gets accomplished at the negotiating table.
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