Ecuador Campaigns to Keep Oil Underground


	Ecuador Campaigns to Keep Oil Underground

egil1313

6-7-2007 7:51 PM

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6-7-2007 10:01 PM

egoldstein

Interesting approach.

6-9-2007 5:20 PM

Socratoad

Refreshing.

6-10-2007 8:57 PM

sidegik

i believe extracting oil from the ground produces bad luck. ; (

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					</P></TD></TR><TR valign="top" align="left"><TD><FONT size="-2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000">ECUADOR: June 7, 2007</FONT><P>
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<FONT size="-1" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000"><B> QUITO - Ecuador offered on Tuesday to drop plans to develop the country's biggest oilfield if wealthy nations pay it to safeguard pristine land near the proposed drill site. </B></FONT>
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<FONT size="-1" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000"> Leftist President Rafael Correa hopes developed countries and environmental groups will pay the poor South American nation about US$350 million annually to leave the oil in the ground and reduce carbon dioxide emissions to slow global warming.</FONT></TD></TR></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A99990DA-57F7-4C72-8063-AD3732221BED/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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