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Arabica Robusta

New Amazon Oil Threat - The Price of Oil - 0 views

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  • The battle for oil in the Amazon has often been overlooked recently due to the fight to keep oil companies out of the Arctic. But the threat remains and is set to get much worse
  • It is over twenty years since Judith Kimerling’s ground-breaking booklet Amazon Crude was published into the devastation of oil in Ecuador by Texaco. If you have never read Joe Kane’s stunning book Savages on the shocking cultural impact of Amazonian oil, you should add it to your reading list.
  • The latest warning about oil’s lethal legacy has come from neighbouring Peru.  On Monday, the country’s government declared an environmental state of emergency in a remote region of the rainforest near the Ecuadorian border, inhabited by the Quichua and Ashuar indigenous groups
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  • But in timing that is beyond ironic, the very same day that Peru issued its state of emergency, Ecuadorian officials were in the Hilton in Beijing offering over three million hectares of pristine Amazonian rainforest to Chinese oil companies, including China Petrochemical and China National Offshore Oil.
Arabica Robusta

Human Rights, Violence and the Oil Complex - 0 views

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  • Arabica Robusta on 24 Apr 08
     
    A particularly perceptive quote is below: "Oil has specific properties (it is a fluid, it tends to be moved in pipelines, it has a particular market structure, oil corporations have distinctive attributes and so on). But in this sort of analysis it is not clear what causal powers these material and other features of oil actually possess. Ross's analysis [of the "resource curse"] on its face might just as well hold for gold in South Africa. Furthermore if oil hinders democracy (as though copper might liberate parliamentary democracy?), one surely needs to appreciate the centralizing effect of oil and the state in relation to the oil-based nation-building enterprises that are unleashed in the context of a politics that pre-dates oil."
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