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The high cost of cheap oil

Selection of articles published in the WRM's Bulletin on the issue of oil exploitation.

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Contents 

About this book

Presentation

Our viewpoint
- The high cost of cheap oil
- Three fallen warriors

AMERICA

Argentina
- Battle over gas pipeline in the long struggle of the Kolla peoples
- Oil companies try to "green" their image

Bolivia
- Indigenous peoples' forests menaced by oil exploration

Colombia
- Problems with oil exploration
- U'wa indigenous peoples confront oil companies
- Support to the U'wa people
- U'wa victory at Occidental's shareholder meeting
- The U'wa achieve significant victory
- A matter of life or death for the U'wa
- The U'wa people do not surrender
- Action for the U'wa people
- The U'wa and Embera join forces
- International Mission and good news about the U'wa

Ecuador
- Indigenous women defend the forest of Pastaza
- Indigenous women against oil exploration 
- Yasuní National Park once again under threat from oil exploration
- Shell's activities
- The Cofán's successful action against an oil well
- Oil exploitation banned in protected areas
- Ecologists are not terrorists 

Guatemala
- Maya Biosphere Reserve under threat
- Campaign against oil activities in Maya Biosphere Reserve
- Actions to defend natural reserve against oil exploitation

Peru
- Shell Oil menaces the Amazon indigenous
- Shell in the Peruvian Amazon

AFRICA

Chad-Cameroon
- Menacing oil exploitation
- Response from the World Bank
- The World Bank again shows who it serves

Nigeria
- Nnimmo Bassey imprisoned and released
- WRM "unwittingly subversive"
- Shell-related forest fires
- NGO nominated for the Sophie Prize
- Ogoni released: a light of hope
- Resistance to oil industry in Africa
- Threatened mangroves
- Oil and violence
- Victory of local communities over Texaco
- The struggle continues
- A positive change in oil activities in Nigeria?
- Environmental racism
- Shell sets forests on fire

ASIA

Bangladesh
- Mangroves menaced by oil and gas companies

Burma-Thailand
- Threats to close off the forest against gas pipeline
- Thailand: forest defenders arrested
- Thailand: one year of struggle against Yadana gas pipeline
- Burma: gas, dictatorship and multinationals at Yadana gas pipeline 

Indonesia
- Is new legislation on oil and gas a solution?

Pakistan
- National Park threatened by oil exploration

Mount Tamalpais declaration

 



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