IPFS News Link • Environment
Ecuador: Some Observations Regarding the Yasuní-ITT Proposal
• upsidedownworld.org
1. As some commentators have already pointed out, Yasuní National Park is hardly a pristine area. It has been explored and exploited for decades. Shell oil set up camp there in the 1940s, but abandoned the wells it drilled due to the difficulty of getting the oil to market, and because the crude was heavy: