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Bacchus4.0

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Sat Oct 10, 2015, 12:11 PM Oct 2015

Ecuador: 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.html





Ecuador'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 OP
pics Bacchus4.0 Oct 2015 #1
Correa no doubt approved the construction Zorro Oct 2015 #2
or just lie about it Bacchus4.0 Oct 2015 #3
Those are great photos, reveals a lot. mackerel Oct 2015 #4
It's just a trail, don'tcha know? Zorro Oct 2015 #5
an "ecological" trail to be exact nt Bacchus4.0 Oct 2015 #6
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