In Ecuador, oil boom creates tension
by Nick Miroff

The Washington Post    Translate This Article
16 February 2014

On 16 February 2014 The Washington Post reported: An unprecedented drilling push by Ecuador's government has brought new tensions to the village of Yawepare and the country's Amazon lowlands. As the chain saws and bulldozers cut deeper into the forest, critics say the government is triggering brutal warfare between the Waorani and a smaller, breakaway tribe living in 'voluntary isolation' beyond the oil frontier. Ecuador, an OPEC member, pumps more than 500,000 barrels of crude a day, but with production falling, the country is moving to drill inside one of the world's most ecologically complex and fragile places, Yasuni National Park, an area that is also home to the tribes. The government says it needs the money to pull the country out of poverty and provide education, housing and electricity to the Waorani and other forest inhabitants who have been living on the sidelines of the oil rush for too long. Tepa Quimontari, a Waorani Indian, marched with with women from other forest tribes all the way to Qito to try and meet Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa. She wanted to warn him that if the companies take out more oil, the forest will sink. 'There won't be any animals. The rivers will die,' she said. 'More diseases will come.' The President did not meet with the women. Global Good News service views this news as the failure of modern business systems. Such 'flops' highlight the need for more intelligent, evolutionary, Natural Law based, life-supporting systems.

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