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Environmentalists dismayed by Ecuador presidential candidates

Environmentalists dismayed by Ecuador presidential candidates AFP 1 hr ago AFP © Rodrigo BUENDIA Ecuadorans must choose between Andres Arauz (left) and Guillermo Lasso to be their next president, but environmentalists are not impressed Environmental activists will feel stuck between a rock and hard place on Sunday when forced to choose a new president. Leftist Andres Arauz faces the right-wing Guillermo Lasso in a run-off election with both vowing to continue oil and mineral extraction, which has already devastated a sixth of Ecuador s Amazon jungle. Ecuador remains immersed in an extractivist policy. That is to say that both candidates believe Ecuador s future is in oil and that has nothing to do with reality, Carlos Larrea, the director of the socio-environmental unit at the Simon Bolivar University, told AFP.

Ecuador poll candidates dismay environmentalists

Ecuador poll candidates dismay environmentalists Agence France-Presse © Provided by The Manila Times QUITO: Environmental activists will feel stuck between a rock and hard place on Sunday when forced to choose a new president. Leftist Andres Arauz faces the right-wing Guillermo Lasso in a run-off election with both vowing to continue oil and mineral extraction, which has already devastated a sixth of Ecuador’s Amazon jungle. “Ecuador remains immersed in an extractivist policy. That is to say that both candidates believe Ecuador’s future is in oil and that has nothing to do with reality,” Carlos Larrea, the director of the socioenvironmental unit at the Simon Bolivar University, told Agence France-Presse (AFP).

Toxic Spills in Venezuela Offer a Bleak Vision of the End of Oil

Toxic Spills in Venezuela Offer a Bleak Vision of the End of Oil Bloomberg 12/15/2020 Fabiola Zerpa, Peter Millard and Andrew Rosati (Bloomberg) Tropical rains have washed away most outward traces of the oil spill that ravaged Rio Seco this fall. But the fishing village in the shadow of Venezuela’s main refining hub bears the scars of deeper contamination. Popular Searches Boats with oil-stained hulls must now travel further out into the Caribbean to make a catch. Crude has soaked the roots of nearby mangroves, leaving shrimp grounds barren. Seeing no future, dozens of fishermen and their families have fled their homes; those who are left loiter in the village, waiting for Petroleos de Venezuela, the state oil company known as PDVSA, to compensate for lost boats, equipment and sales.

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