Sentences with phrase «indigenous oil group»

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The protest also comes amid continued activism by indigenous groups across the U.S., who have rallied over issues ranging from sports mascots to environmental causes such as the Dakota Access and Keystone XL oil pipelines.

Formed toward the end of the 1950s, two of these groups remain active today: the FARC (Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces), which draws its primary strength from campesinos in the south, and the ELN (Army of National Liberation), whose strength is greater in the north among oil workers, indigenous groups defending their habitat against encroachment by the oil industry, and the Afro - Colombian population.

«We also urge the Federal Government to make an upward review of the derivation formula and consider strongly the inclusion of indigenous firms and the allocation of Oil blocks, «the group said.

Business News of Wednesday, 9 May 2018 Source: ghananewsagency.org Patrick Akpe Kwame Akorli, Group Chief Executive Officer of GOIL The nation's foremost indigenous Oil Marketing Company (OMC) the Ghana Oil Company Limited (GOIL) on Wednesday launched the bulk transporters» driving manual to guide drivers of petroleum products on the safety mechanism for movement from depots to delivery points.

Prompted by Connie Hogarth — an octogenarian activist with so much energy that there's a Connie Hogarth Center for Social Action named for her at Manhattanville College — the group voted on Jan. 3 to give $ 1,000 to the Pachamama Alliance, a nonprofit group working with indigenous groups in Ecuador that are fighting oil companies and the government on several fronts.

(08/07/2009) Despite violent protests by indigenous groups over plans to expand oil and gas exploration in the Peru's Amazon rainforest, energy investments in the South American country are expected to increase to $ 1.5 billion in both 2009 and 2010, reports Reuters.

But the good news for tropical forests was tempered by developments including Indonesia announcing its intentions to open up more than 2 million hectares of carbon - dense peatlands to old palm development; the collapse in law enforcement in Madagascar, contributing to an explosion of commercial timber (and lemur) harvesting in that country's spectacular rainforest parks; a breakdown at the RSPO meeting over efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from palm oil production; violent conflict in Peru between government security forces and indigenous groups over land rights and resource extraction; massive foreign land acquisitions in the Congo Basin; dodgy REDD dealings in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea; and large - scale expansion of oil palm agriculture in the Amazon.

In response to the Commission's creation, 29 Peruvian civil society organizations, including EIA and Aidesep (the Interethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Amazon), sent a letter to the government of Peru demanding that the Multisectoral Commission on Oil Palm include the participation of relevant stakeholders, including indigenous groups, NGOs, and academics — all with expertise and a stake in development of the Amazon region and forest protection.

No civil society or indigenous groups have been invited to participate in the commission, essentially excluding the voice of the people most affected by oil palm expansion in the Peruvian Amazon.

At least 34 people have been killed in clashes between indigenous groups and the Peruvian police after the government passed a law opening up regions in the Amazon for foreign oil and gas ventures.

The Tsleil - Waututh First Nation is one of several Indigenous groups that have taken legal action against the oil company.