Tag: oil drilling

Ecuador jungle community hopes vote will end oil drilling

BAMENO, Ecuador, Aug 4, 2023 (AFP) – Armed with a long blowgun and darts laced with poison extracted from plants, Kominta walks naked through the thick Ecuadorian jungle, where oil exploration is threatening his way of life. “The jungle is my home, and I don’t want strangers in my territory,” the Waorani hunter tells AFP in the southeastern village of Bameno, in a region bordering Peru. His community of about 200 people is in Yasuni […]

Namibia defends drilling in unique biodiversity site

WINDHOEK, Namibia (AFP) — Namibia’s environment minister on Thursday defended a decision to allow oil and gas drilling in a biodiversity hotspot and near UN-listed cave paintings believed to be thousands of years old. Canada-based firm ReconAfrica is set to begin drilling this month in the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA) — a unique ecological site spanning parts of Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The petroleum exploration company secured rights in 2014 to drill […]