Energy and Environment

Ecuador issues permit to drill in Amazon reserve

By Washington Examiner
Published May 23, 2014 1:22am ET
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Ecuador issues permit to drill in Amazon reserve
FILE - In this May 17, 2007, file photo, An aerial view of the Yasuni National Park, in Ecuador's northeastern jungle. Ecuador's government has issued an environmental permit, May 22, 2014, for oil drilling in the pristine Amazon reserve that President Rafael Correa initially offered to exempt from exploration if rich countries would pay his government. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa, File) | Dolores Ochoa

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador’s government has issued an environmental permit for oil drilling in the pristine Amazon reserve that President Rafael Correa initially offered to exempt from exploration if rich countries would pay his government.

Correa abandoned that effort last year due to insufficient interest and has spurned pleas by environmentalists to spare the Yasuni reserve.

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