E-Tech Projects

Independantly Conducted Projects

Oil waste Cleanup in Corrientes Region of Amazon, Peru


In 2006, Achuar indigenous people whose land is on the Corrientes River on the northern Peru border of Ecuador seized polluted oilfields controlled by Pluspetrol and formerly operated by Occidental Petroleum.   The Achuar and Pluspetrol came to an agreement to reinject wastes into old wells.   E-Tech Chief Engineer Bill Powers has overseen that process for the Achuar and for indigenous and Peruvian civil society groups supporting them.

Press

March 24, 2008 BBC News Report: Peru tribe battles oil giant over pollution. BBC reports on Corrientes and E-Tech involvement.

 

January 31, 2008 Washington Post: “For Peru's Indians, Lawsuit Against Big Oil Reflects a New Era” Kelly Hearn
An article on the cleanup of old Occidental Petroleum wastes on Achuar Indian land in the Amazon on Peru-Ecuador border. Actual cleanup has been overseen by E-Tech. The Washington Post article has links to the lawsuit resulting in cleanup and to the “A Peru Project at the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting”. The Pulitzer Center link will take you to other articles by Kelly Hearn on Peruvian oil-gas and indigenous issues which involve E-Tech., overviews of E-Tech partner organization Amazon Watch work in the Amazon, and direct links to E-Tech reports on Camisea. The Pulitzer Center link is: "http://www.pulitzercenter.org/showproject.cfm?id=32&sid=ST2008013100037

 

January 30, 2008 Spanish Language Report on Advances on reinjection for Lots 1A-1B Peru.