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Related: About this forumEcuador: oil company has built 'secret' road deep into Yasuni National Park
http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2426486/ecuador_oil_company_has_built_secret_road_deep_into_yasuni_national_park.htmlEcuador's state oil company PetroAmazonas has, in secret, built a road deep into the heart of the world-famous Yasuni National Park in Ecuador's Amazon rainforest, writes David Hill - violating promises and threatening uncontacted indigenous tribes.
While no one had been looking, while the world wasn't watching, PetroAmazonas went ahead with a plan rejected by the Ministry of Environment years before.
The existence of the 'secret road' into Yasuni, leading directly to an oil production platform, has been confirmed by high resolution satellite images just released in a new report.
Plans previously approved by Ecuador's Environment Ministry in the project's environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) provided for a "cutting-edge, roadless helicopter-enabled design".
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But these conditions have clearly been breached - images show a full scale but undisclosed 26 metre wide road and 'flowline corridor' for a prospective pipeline, the two cutting a swathe through the rainforest up to 60 metres wide at one point.
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Ecuador: oil company has built 'secret' road deep into Yasuni National Park (Original Post)
Bacchus4.0
Oct 2015
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Bacchus4.0
(6,837 posts)1. pics
Zorro
(15,691 posts)2. Correa no doubt approved the construction
He'll probably blame this on Chevron somehow.
Bacchus4.0
(6,837 posts)3. or just lie about it
mackerel
(4,412 posts)4. Those are great photos, reveals a lot.
Zorro
(15,691 posts)5. It's just a trail, don'tcha know?
Bacchus4.0
(6,837 posts)6. an "ecological" trail to be exact nt