Synopsis:
This DVD compilation highlights 3 areas of concern in the Amazon Basin:

Burlington Resources in Ecuador
Burlington Resources, a Houston-based oil company with record annual earnings of some $1.2 billion in 2003, has plans to explore for oil in three highly controversial oil concessions in remote Amazon regions of Ecuador and Peru. These concessions were carved out of the traditional territories of four indigenous nations--the Shuar, Achuar, Kichwa, and Zapara--without their consultation or consent.

Peru's Camisea Project: Risky Business
Peru's Camisea Gas Project is currently the most damaging project in the Amazon Basin. Located in the remote Urubamba Valley in the south-east Peruvian Amazon, the $1.6 billion project includes two pipelines to the Peruvian coast cutting through an Amazon biodiversity hotspot described by scientists as "the last place on earth" to drill for fossil fuels. Nearly 75 percent of gas extraction operations are located inside a State Reserve for indigenous peoples living with little or no contact with the outside world, who have been forcibly contacted by the Camisea consortia in violation of their internationally recognized rights. A gas processing plant is being built on the Peruvian coast within the buffer zone of a marine reserve of international significance.

ChevronTexaco: On Trial in Ecuador
Overviews the ChevronTexaco Toxic Legacy in Ecuador.

Credits:
Produced by Amazon Watch.

Web Url:
www.amazonwatch.org

Film Date:
2005

Film Length:
29

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