Oil Company Builds Illegal Road Through Yasuni Rainforest

[Bacchus4.0]

http://www.planetexperts.com/oil-company-builds-illegal-road-yasuni-rainforest/

Satellite images prove that an Ecuadorian oil company has violated its drilling permit by building a road through Yasuni National Park.

In 2007, Ecuador approved an Environmental Impact Study (EIS) on an innovative oil drilling design inside Yasuni. The EIS stipulated that helicopters would fly equipment in and out of the drilling site and a thin “flowline corridor” would be created for the oil pipeline. There was to be no road.

The permit’s stipulations were designed to inflict a minimal impact on the rainforest, a compromise between a government that needed a boost to its economy and the scientists who argued that building roads into the park would begin a fatal chain reaction of illegal colonization and deforestation.

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According to a report from Geoyasuni, high resolution images have recorded the following violations of the Yasuni EIS by Petroamazonas:

“1) Petroamazonas is using the flowline corridor as an access road, evidenced by numerous vehicles and permanent waterway crossing structures such as bridges and culverts, 2) the average right-of-way for the flowline corridor is 26 m, which is 2.5 times greater than what was approved in the EIS, 3) less than 6% of the access route within the park is less than 15 m wide, the maximum width allowed in the EIS, and 4) Inside the park, the total deforestation is 63.64 ha, 34.4 percent greater than the 47.33 ha authorized by the logging license.”

[Fred Sanders]

1. Private oil companies before would have levelled the whole forest and then paid off the government

controlled by oligarchs with handsome rewards, rather than just widen a right of way already authorized by the socialist government that owns the offending state oil company.

The calling for and doing of a Nationalization of oil companies would be the mark of a true socialist.

[Zorro]

2. Guess what the lying Correa government has allowed is OK, then

[Bacchus4.0]

3. I doubt it since leveling the forest would be time consuming and expensive

so what motivation would there be? Why not just make a road to the oil platform like the state did. Calling it an "ecological" road doesn't make the impact less.