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In addition, part of the funds to support the task will be provided by Accion Ecologica,
a local NGO that launched a peculiar marketing campaign: to sell for €5 a barrel
the Yasuni oil to any buyer who will leave it on the spot for ever as earth blood,
following the native tradition. Native culture is indeed law in a land always inhabited by the Huaorani, a nomadic
people engaged in hunt who need a space wide enough for their life. Oil extractions would certainly encourage their soon extinction. The government
assessment on the feasibility of the project displays how the extraction areas
often correspond to those of narcotraffic and coca production. The soil analysis
provide the use of some ingredients essential to transform the coca leaves into
a pasty mass and consequently into cocaine.
New refineries. Some substances used in oil industry are also chemical components of this process:
from the sulphurous to the hydrochloric acid, from the nitric acid to the sodium
hydroxide. To build new oil refineries near the wells is highly convenient. New
roads, fresh money and oilfields contribute to develop other illegal activities,
for instance biopiracy and wood smuggling. In the end the park spread on the Amazonian
region is on the border between Colombia and Peru, a logistically strategic highly
risky area. Oil wells would further extend the ongoing conflict on the Colombian
border and jeopardize the relationships with Peru.
Proyeto Itt. The final attempt to cover up the so-called Proyeto Itt, meaning to exploit
the blocks of crude oil in the Yasuni park, has to deal with very complex issues.
The President means to make an ecological choice supported by everyone, first
of all the great Powers, and invest the income in a domestic agriculture, in order
to establish the food independence necessary for the country to escape poverty.
In this way he would respect the international agreements on climate change, preservation
of biodivesity and protected areas and give a chance of development to a country
always on the brink.