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

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, mul...read more

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

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

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

by Hugh Mann

Propaganda alert! This title is not about debating environmental standards. It's about selling the premise "fragile ecosystems". Say's who? That's the real hot topic here. Before delving into alleged eco-fragility, it w...read more

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

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, P...read more

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

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

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

by Blake T. Miller Blake

The Metabolism of Civilization depends on Corporations. When that oil crave becomes denied, due to the fact there aren't anymore oil left. Will Civilization hit a screeching stop? If there anybody that understand the marke...read more

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

by Linda Hahn

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

by Juliana Manderico

Whether the United States have environmental standards or not, (but it should be, because US has a higher educational standard and everything has rules and regulations to follow, especially environmental standard, to ensur...read more

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

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

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...read more

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 Guy Hoskins

The Amazon rainforest, in the western world at least, is synonymous with Brazil. In reality this green behemoth transcends national boundaries to also encompass vast tracts of Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. It is in the last...read more

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 t...read more