WERI FOUNDATION: Environment in Ecuador, Striking It Rich By Keeping Oil In the Ground

2010-07-25

Environment in Ecuador, Striking It Rich By Keeping Oil In the Ground

For National Geographic, Dan Grossman reports on Ecuador's efforts to protect the country's oil reserves and biodiversity through an offer to put several major Amazon oil deposits off limits to drilling if other countries help cover at least some of the lost revenue. It is a lesson the country learned the hard way after Texaco dumped billions of gallons of waste from its oil operations in the Ecuadoran Amazon in the 1970s and 1980s.

Read more in the Bolivia/Ecuador: Indigenous People Confront Global Warming reporting project.

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