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Weekly Report - 05 September 2024 (WR-24-35)
ECUADOR: Environmentalists face long wait on Yasuní oil ban
Production was halted at one of the 247 oil wells in Ecuador’s Yasuní national park on 28 August, a year after a referendum in which voters backed a ban on drilling in the biodiversity hotspot. Switching off the remaining 246 oil wells will take substantially longer, with President Daniel Noboa’s government having been accused of foot-dragging over the issue.
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