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Amazonia Under Threat | National Geographic
▻http://www.nationalgeographic.com/climate-change/explore-amazonia/#
Journey into the Amazon region, where thousands of species live in a delicate balance that’s imperiled by logging, mining, agriculture, roadbuilding, oil, and gas drilling.

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Colombian tribe scores ‘historic’ victory versus Big Gas | Environment | The Guardian
▻http://www.theguardian.com/environment/andes-to-the-amazon/2015/mar/26/colombian-tribe-scores-historic-victory-versus-big-gas

The indigenous U’wa people living in north-east Colombia have won what observers call an “historic” and “decisive” victory after state oil and gas company Ecopetrol dismantled a gas drilling site in their territories.

The U’wa Association of Traditional Authorities and Councils (Asou’wa) reported in February last year the arrival of an “avalanche of heavy machinery” and increasing numbers of soldiers at the site, called Magallanes, where Ecopetrol intended to drill three wells. After statements fiercely opposing operations and a series of meetings with government and company representatives, Ecopetrol agreed to suspend operations last May and announced a decision in July to withdraw equipment - but only finished doing so in January this year.

#colombie #peuples_autochtones #hydrocarbures

Fracking safety: report warns of ’significant unknowns’
▻http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/mar/25/fracking-safety-oil-gas-report

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Oil and gas drilling can contaminate water sources with methane, as Steve Lipsky, above, demonstrates by setting match to water flowing from his well outside his home in rural Parker County near Weatherford, Texas, US. Photograph: LM Otero/AP

#eau #pollution #fracturation_hydraulique #gaz_de_schiste

SOME STATES CONFIRM WATER POLLUTION FROM DRILLING
▻http://bigstory.ap.org/article/some-states-confirm-water-pollution-drilling

PITTSBURGH (AP) — In at least four states that have nurtured the nation’s energy boom, hundreds of complaints have been made about well-water contamination from oil or gas drilling, and pollution was confirmed in a number of them, according to a review that casts doubt on industry suggestions that such problems rarely happen.

#pollution #eau #fracturation_hydraulique