Should US environmental standards apply when multinational companies develop the petroleum resources of fragile ecosystems such as Peru's Amazon? - Pulitzer Center

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by Elizabeth Wordsmith

Peru's northern Amazon region, in particular, the lower Urubamba region, is being threatened by extreme ecological disturbance and exploitation by a multitude of multinational companies associated with the Camisea Project....read more
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by Peter Shattuck

Necessity and Neglect: Making Multinationals Accountable for What Matters The enforcement of strict environmental standards in fragile ecosystems such as Peru's Amazon is the obligation of the consumer. After all, multi...read more

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by Linhah

The title of this article might better be Is God Truly Dead? To begin with, the United States has no environmental standards. The United States government has been on an environmental killing spree for two hundred years...read more
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by Caroline Totten

Should U.S. environmental standards apply when multinational companies develop the petroleum resources of fragile ecosystems such as Peru's Amazon? When oil reserves were discovered in the jungle near Iquitos, Peru,...read more
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by Patricia Dexheimer

If there is one place on the planet earth that must be protected and safeguarded, it is the South and Central American rain-forests, which encompasses the greatest biological diversity in the world. Comprised of seven perc...read more
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by Eve Redstone

Ever since Sting brought it to world attention the plight of the Amazonian rainforest has been an international concern. Logging by big businesses in Latin American countries and the deforestation of areas for beef product...read more
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by Hugh Mann

Propaganda alert! This title is not about debating environmental standards. It's about assuming the premise "fragile ecosystems". Who says they're fragile? Let's get some perspective on the premise that the ecosystem is f...read more
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by George Ivanov

Over the horizon, the first rays of the morning sun poked through the clouds. The black outline of the vast rainforest silhouetted against the emerging sunrise. It was pristine, beautiful...a majestic sight, as I watched f...read more
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by Carol Noble

Multinational Companies at present are given almost carte-blanche to do what they wish, ignoring the environmental and social issues of any country in which they have a presence. Whilst each company is supposed to follow ...read more
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by Rosemarie Quintal

The Peruvian Government suddenly declared 80% of the Amazon to be available for gas and oil drilling, despite the lives of 482 Indigenous people that live in the Amazon Region. A group of Indigenous Peruvians in respons...read more
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by Peter Gilchrist

Since time immemorial countries have reaped great wealth from trade. It also gave rise to extensive exploration and European colonisation. It expanded in a situation that was largely free from regulation. Today, modern ...read more
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by Marie Devine

If it were necessary to develop the petroleum resources of Peru's Amazon and the US were part of the multinational companies, the US should not be able to ignore its own environmental standards. There is a solution withou...read more
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by Jorge Arevalo

It's just a pity that the growth achieved by increasing exports and the discovery of oil and gas reserves for the fight against poverty in developing countries will see improved by the misbehavior of a few companies that ...read more
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by Betsy Young

The broadleaves shadowing the forest floor in the Amazon watershed comprises fifty percent of the world's rainforest. Home to hundreds of separate indigenous groups in eight nations. This river system begins high in the An...read more
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by Daniel J. Gansle

The question of whether multinational energy companies should adhere to U.S. environmental policy overseas is a thorny one. As a business concerned with pleasing its shareholders with infinitely rising stock valuations, it...read more
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by Stephanie Whybrow

The Amazon Rain forest is endeared to us all as 'the Lungs of the Earth'. We embrace the enormous, serene expanse of Amazon rain forest as a treasure of our own. But to whom does it really belong? Who has the right to inha...read more
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by Raymond Alexander Kukkee

Be Advised; North Americans may not appreciate hearing the truth. Multinational oil companies are racing south to exploit delicate environments in countries such as Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia in the endless search f...read more
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by Farhat Mahmood

Should US environmental standards apply when multinational companies develop the petroleum resources of fragile ecosystems such as Peru's Amazon? In order to fully understand the above question I think it is necessary to ...read more
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by Carel Two-Eagle

When multinational companies develop the petroleum resources of fragile ecosystems such as Peru's Amazon, US environmental standards should absolutely apply; unless stricter standards exist, in which case, those standards...read more
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by Gary C. Gibson

The application of U.S. law to American citizens visiting foreign countries is something of a difficult question that is simpler to consider with hyperbole. Murder being illegal in the United States, should an American cit...read more

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