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Articles by Rune Geertsen

©Lou Dematteis and Kayana Szymczak

Support Ecuador’s Milestone No-to-Oil-Exploration Proposal

Rune Geertsen July 17, 2007 Rune Geertsen

What does a poor government do when it finds an oil treasure in a protected natural park? Does it choose profit, and therefore the pollution and the cultural extinction of indigenous people that goes with it, or does it leave the oil in the ground and wave goodbye to millions of dollars that could be spent fighting poverty?  

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