Bolivia rejects US blame game on Copenhagen and calls for the people to decide


New York, 18 January 2010 - In response to US
climate envoy Jonathan Pershing's attempts to
blame countries of the Latin American ALBA block
for the failure of the Copenhagen climate talks
and the US decision to therefore sideline the UN

Bolivia's ambassador to the United Nations, has responded strongly to the US position on Climate Debt, saying "We are not assigning guilt, merely responsibility. As they say in the US, if you break it, you buy it."

He was responding to Todd Stern, US Special Envoy for Climate Change, who said in a press conference on 10 December: "We absolutely recognize our historic role in putting emissions in the atmosphere up there that are there now. But the sense of guilt or culpability or reparations - I just categorically reject that."

//

British energy firm in the dock over Amazon project

[ http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/british-energy-fir... ]

By Guy Adams in Los Angeles

Peru: Battle lines drawn over the Amazon
By Ben Powless
| June 8, 2009
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/ben-powless/2009/06/peru-battle-lines-dr...

Peru protesters take control of natural gas valves

LIMA, June 1
(Reuters) - Protesters have seized two valves along the only pipeline
that moves natural gas from Peru's Camisea field to the coast, but
flows have not been disrupted yet, the company that operates the
pipeline said on Monday.

Indigenous communities have been demanding more control over natural
resources, blocking roads and waterways since April to try to force the
government to revoke investment rules passed last year and revise
concessions granted to foreign energy companies.

Transportadora
de Gas del Peru (TGP), a consortium of energy firms that includes
Argentina's Pluspetrol and U.S.-based Hunt Oil, said about 50