Ecuador wants money not to drill

IPN News coverage

Authors:

Alec van Gelder

Media outlet:

Al Jazeera

Published date:

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Teaser:

Alec van Gelder comments on a proposal by Ecuadorian President, Rafael Correa, that his country should be paid not to extract oil from the YasuníAmazon reserve.

"The president claims to be representing all of the groups interested in this issue. But I'm worried the way that this scheme is being propsed, who will get this money. Is this money going to go to the people at stake here? The people living in the areas where all the deposits exist? My suspicion is no."